I Went All-In on Bitcoin in 2017. Here's What 8 Years Taught Me

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]If you understand what allin exactly means in a system that's designed to keep your poor, the next decade will look completely different and most people will never have the courage to find this out.

[00:00:19]Good morning, good afternoon, good evening guys wherever you are on this beautiful world whenever you're watching this video. Welcome to the Bitcoin family channel. My name is Di educating people already since 2013 in this beautiful Bitcoin industry guys but I'm not a financial adviser. Everything I state in this video is just entertainment purposes only guys. Today one deep lesson on sovereignity three amazing family first chart yes evergreen version that you can watch even in 10 years again guys. Let's jump into the first section. First, I will talk about what allin actually meant for us as a family in 2017. It wasn't just a reckless move. It was a pretty calculated move if you did a little bit of research after Bitcoin, guys. But if you also understand, we only took that step because we wanted to change life.

[00:01:09]We want to trade our jobs and the security and all the safe things that we were educated in for our own time. To be able to grab life by the balls again, to grab the steering wheel and steer our lives in a direction that we really wanted to live to lead by example for our children. We use Bitcoin for that as a tool. And many people refer to that as reckless. But for us, it wasn't reckless. We understood the economics of the world. We understood that money was being printed out of thin air. We understood that every and each decade has a new revolution. It was the internet decentralizing data and information. And now we had this new invention blockchain and bitcoin that was decentralizing money disconnecting money from the state and also being fully limited to only 21 million bitcoin. So for us we quickly understood that bitcoin could turn into the new digital gold and that betting on bitcoin was a safer bet than leaving our money on the banks in the banking system.

[00:02:19]Because we knew one thing of those 10 years before 2017, being an entrepreneur, running a couple of businesses that all the money that we earned, as much as we earned, and even if we earned more and more and more, in the end, we were always able to buy less and less and less as the euro was killing our purchasing power slowly. So for us, it was not a reckless move. If there is three things that I can tell my younger self in 2013 when I was mining Bitcoin and in 201617 when we went all in, it was one don't form into any other project. Two, huddle as much as possible bitcoins and dollar cost average in near the bottom and dollar cost average out near the top. And three, freedom and happiness is not only dependent on wealth. It's dependent on being able to move your money wherever you want to wherever you want, whenever you want.

[00:03:18]Those three things I would travel back in time and tell me over and over again.

[00:03:22]So all in for us was not reckless. It meant we were aligned with what we actually believed about the future of money. And the hardest part guys of going all in was not Bitcoin. It was ignoring all the people that were negative about Bitcoin. Ignoring all the noise, all the people that think that you are crazy by going all in. That thing that you lost your mind because you lost your parents on an early age.

[00:03:47]You got like a burnout and you got became crazy and you went all in without any valid reason. Ignoring all of those people offline and online, that was the hardest struggle as a family. In the end, of course, they were all proven to be wrong and we were proven to be right.

[00:04:06]It also could have gone the other side.

[00:04:08]Volatility will never stop feeling real, guys. But time will make feel it irrelevant. And that is something that you need to learn because yes, Bitcoin is volatile. It will go up and down. But if you zoom out and look at that bigger time frame, you will see something very beautiful and you can't deny it anymore.

[00:04:28]But I will show you this now on the charts because these charts will convince you of exactly what I just told you in a very datadriven way.

[00:04:38]Mathematics don't lie. Historical data doesn't lie. So watch these charts, learn your lesson, and afterwards let me know down below what you think about it.

[00:04:47]Let's jump into this chart. Bam.

[00:04:51]The first chart for today guys is this amazing chart. Same family, same house, different money. That's uh what you need to understand from this chart guys. Um it's showing you exactly that in 2017 we sold out to 300k of course some savings and the cars and the furniture let's say 400k in total net worth. Let's say that's the reality. Now if we would have had that one in 2017 and we would have sold the house with €3,000 euro put that money on the bank account and keep the savings on the bank account. You know, we could have had around 400K. Now, today, that's how it is. We went in with 400K. Let's see 20k house plus a savings. And at the moment, we would have 400k. Now, we sold that house for 100 bitcoin. If you want to buy back that house, we pay 4 bitcoin. This means that we had almost 96 bitcoin profit.

[00:05:50]If you calculate 96 bitcoin on today's price, you do understand this is more than $7 million US.

[00:05:57]So we are same the same family. We did travel the world. We could buy back the same house but it will cost us a little bit different money guys because the bitcoin required to buy the house back is less than we received at that moment.

[00:06:14]And that's what we call a beautiful monetary system that doesn't have inflation. Because even if you would have kept the three and 400k till now, we would be able to buy back less in euros. We couldn't even afford the house at the moment or we need to eat up our savings and the cars and everything that we sold to be able to buy back that same house that is now 400k.

[00:06:38]Fiat is inflation. It eats your value.

[00:06:41]Central banks will print more whenever they need. and assets prices will inflate. You work, the system will win.

[00:06:49]Bitcoin's reality is completely different, guys. Fixed supply, purchasing power will increase, sovereign money, optionality, and freedom. That's what my combination of Bitcoin is. And that's the most hard truth that you will hear today. So, why are you still saving in fiat? Fiat is not outperforming Bitcoin and it will never outperform Bitcoin as Bitcoin is only freedom system.

[00:07:16]The house didn't get cheaper. Bitcoin made our money stronger. Money is weaker every single year. This chart will show you the exact reason behind that. The reason is exactly what is the problem in this nowadays fiat system. The problem is there is no gold backing the system anymore which means they keep printing money. Central banks keep printing money. They keep monetizing debt and the purchasing power will erode by that. And that's what we see. In 2017 it was a $13 trillion money supply. At the moment it's $22 trillion. It almost doubled.

[00:08:03]Bitcoin supply in 2017 was 16.7 million bitcoin. Today it is 19.7 million bitcoin. The future it is a hard cap of 21 million bitcoin. There is no hard cap in fiat currency. Bitcoin is the only one with a fixed supply.

[00:08:21]Dollars and euros have infinite expansion and by that creating infinite inflation.

[00:08:29]Please understand that euros is debasing your savings. It's inflating all your assets. It's rewarding debt and it will punish patients.

[00:08:40]Fiat means trust the central bank.

[00:08:42]Bitcoin means trust the math system that will protect your capital, fix scarcity, purchasing power will increase, sovereign ownership and freedom for future generation. Fiat will expand forever. Please understand that Bitcoin will end at 21 million Bitcoin one system is extracting from you and that's fiat inflation delusion and also extracting sovereignity.

[00:09:12]Why are you still in euros and dollars if you can be in Bitcoin?

[00:09:18]Last shot. What does self custody cost versus the banks? Who really controls your money? That's of course that you need to consider when you go into Bitcoin. If we look at the fiat system, you need to trust the bank, but they can freeze your accounts. They can block your withdrawals. They have inflation taxation, purchasing power erosion, and permission is required. So, the banking system has a counterparty risk. Accounts can freeze, transfers can be blocked, all of that. Now, your purchasing power is decreasing. So while you need to listen to them and ask him permission, your purchasing power is decreasing.

[00:10:00]This is the red line here. This is what you can buy nowadays. While you could buy this in 2018, $80 worth of goods is now worth like what $10 worth of goods purely inflation.

[00:10:14]Why? Money printing in 2020 during the COVID 2022 banking crisis 2023 blocked withdrawals.

[00:10:24]This is not the path to walk. You should be on the orange path. Here's where we started self-custody. Look what happened. Unrestricted transfers. 2020.

[00:10:36]No permission needed ever again.

[00:10:38]Sovereign ownership. And yes, from 80 our purchasing power increased to,000.

[00:10:46]Self custody guys is the most important thing when it comes to finance. Hold your own keys. Hold your own money. No frozen accounts, no permission needed if you want to use it or send it. No borders. You have borderless wealth and financial sovereignity. You are in control.

[00:11:04]We have doing been doing this now all in for more than eight years. Not once our account was being frozen. Not once our transfers had been blocked. Not once there was a counterparty failure.

[00:11:18]We were always in full control and we could always use whatever we needed to use. Not your keys, not your coins, not your wealth. Please show me the same here. Please, of the 100 friends that you have, let me know how often was their account frozen. How often did they block withdrawals? How often did you ask permission to get a little bit more cash from your ATM or whatever?

[00:11:47]All of that permission It is your money. You should be in control. So that's why I think Bitcoin is better than fiat currencies and will also outperform it when it comes to purchasing power as we cannot print more Bitcoin. I can't make these charts clearer. Guys, pause these videos, watch the charts, but please understand it's not only about making profit in Bitcoin. It's also about the message behind Bitcoin. Freedom in spending using your capital without the need of asking permission. Because if you have the freedom in control of money, you will feel also freedom in living life all over the world. Because nobody will be able to stop you and doing what you want. You can spend it the way you want.

[00:12:41]You can invest it the way you want. You can even make your capital work for you the way you want. And by making your capital work for you the way you want, you're able to outperform the system.

[00:12:56]You are able to outgrow inflation.

[00:12:59]You're able to protect your capital against all of those things. black swan events, inflation, printing of money, you are able to give something back to your future generation just because you chose the right system. That were the charts, guys.

[00:13:18]I hope you really enjoyed those charts, guys. I hope it gave you insight in how money really works, what it meant to go all in into Bitcoin, what would have happened if we didn't do that, and what you can do right now to follow that same path. It is not that difficult. It's just a little bit courage that you're lacking at the moment. But when you get at that courage to make that first step, you will be able to do the same things.

[00:13:48]And yes, in four, eight or 12 years later, we are now 10 years later, you will be doing the same story to everybody again. Yes, we went all in.

[00:13:58]But now look 10 years later where we are. Our capital start to work for us.

[00:14:03]We increased our purchasing power and we lived really free, decentralized and disconnected from the state. Nobody being able to stop us or we didn't need to ask permission anymore to use our own money. That is how you need to structure your life. That's what we call freedom.

[00:14:20]And to give you a little bit more inspiration, guys, if I could go back to 2013, I wouldn't tell myself to buy more Bitcoin, I would tell myself to trust the decision longer, to ignore the noise earlier, to stop asking for permission from people who will never give it.

[00:14:36]Because let's be honest, sovereignity isn't something you buy once and forget forever. It's something that you defend every single day. You need to be a sovereign person. And the quote for today because of that is the secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. I will keep repeating it. Going all in in Bitcoin in 2017 wasn't about price predictions. It was about having the courage to bet on sovereignity when everyone else was betting on permission. And that's the cost that most people will never pay.

[00:15:08]Stop asking for permission. Start grabbing life by the ball. start acting and living the way you want to live because the question I get most is every time the same how do you actually start?

[00:15:20]How do you go from knowing Bitcoin matters to building a life around it? We have put that entire system guys used as a family into a free blueprint. Comment freedom down below this video and I will send you the link to this blueprint. And yes, if you want to watch a little bit more the Bitcoin price is over there and a little bit more freedom mining videos is over here guys. Go and enjoy those two videos now as well. Thank you for watching and see you in the next one.

[00:15:44]Bam.