I asked my friends when they first heard about Bitcoin. They said 2008 or 2009. Sometimes I wonder if I hadn’t been so paranoid, maybe I would have mined Bitcoin early, when it was worthless, and would have become extraordinarily wealthy.
They are lying to you, it is very unlikely that this is true. Also you being paranoid is not the only thing here, people have dismissed it for all sorts of reasons. If you were not paranoid, you would have dismissed it for some other reason then.
So in the end, I was early. But my fear of government intervention cost me the opportunity to achieve wealth beyond my wildest dreams. I see things differently now. I take risks.
That is good, some amount of risk is good.
It is easy to say “I could have been rich dayum I missed my chance bruh”
Yes, I also think that it is not good to think about this. It won't help you gain anything.