2026-01-18 01:36:30

Imagine waking up tomorrow and somehow it's 2016 again. The crypto market looks completely different from what we know today. Bitcoin's trading patterns, the projects that existed back then, the hype cycles—everything feels foreign yet oddly familiar. Would you make the same moves? Hold longer? Get out earlier? It's the kind of thought experiment that makes you reconsider every decision you've made in the market over the past years. Sometimes the best lessons come from imagining we could rewind the clock.

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GateUser-74b10196

· 9h ago

Returning to 2016 would definitely make you regret it forever. Why didn't you hoard more coins back then?

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AirdropBuffet

· 9h ago

Back in 2016? I had already gone all-in on those current top coins, then fully cashed out at the 2017 peak. Feeling great!

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TokenomicsTherapist

· 9h ago

Back in 2016? Ha, I wasn't even in the market back then. Talking about it now is pretty sobering.

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MemeKingNFT

· 9h ago

Travel back to 2016? I've already thought about it. This time, hold on tight and don't sell, but the prerequisite is not to be cut again by the project team.

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SignatureVerifier

· 10h ago

nah, the real question is whether the infrastructure back then could even *handle* what we know now. insufficient validation layers everywhere, deprecated security practices... honestly, i'd probably just short the whole thing and verify the chart three times before touching it.

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