In late 2011, at the beginning of 2012, a senior-year college student on Zhihu asked, “I have 6,000 yuan—what are some good financial management suggestions?”

The founder of BitBbit said, “Buy Bitcoin, save the wallet file, then forget that you ever had 6,000 yuan. Revisit it in five years.”
At the time, Bitcoin was about 3 dollars. Five years later (around 2017), Bitcoin surged to over 200,000 dollars+, and in theory, those 6,000 yuan could have turned into several million—or even more.
In the end, the student still went to the bank to invest for peace of mind. Now, in 2026, Bitcoin is 74,000 dollars, and that 6,000 yuan has already become ten million. It should have been several tens of millions, but it’s gone now.
This student’s approach likely represents most people. Most people probably won’t develop much interest in things they don’t understand. Instead, they may feel fear toward the unknown. And besides, the threshold for trading Bitcoin is relatively high—so it’s probably even more troublesome than it is now, right? So not buying is completely normal. Get it, and it’s my good fortune; miss it, and it’s my fate.
Even though they missed the chance to get rich overnight, this post still went viral—one price update after another! The student will probably remember this for a lifetime and tell their descendants: “Back then, your grandpa almost used 6,000 yuan to make tens of millions of yuan—what a pity! But he missed the chance to get rich overnight! Remember this: learn to seize opportunities, dare to try, and go after the girl you like!”