$SOL
The funny thing about crypto…
People only remember the wins.
Take Solana ($SOL L) for example.
If you invested $1,000 back in 2020, it could be worth around $61,000 today.
At its peak, it even touched nearly $184,000.
Sounds insane when you say it like that.
But here’s the real question…
Who actually held that entire time?
Back then, Solana wasn’t what people hype it as today.
It was just another project… another gamble… another “maybe.”
There were dozens of similar chains.
Most failed.
Some pumped and vanished.
Others are still around… but nobody talks about them anymore.
So when people throw around these numbers, something feels missing.
Yes — Solana made it.
But how many $1,000 bets disappeared at the same time?
How many people sold at 2x… 5x… 10x thinking they were smart?
And what happened after that?
Some watched it run without them.
Others held different projects that never came back.
That’s the part no one shows.
Because in hindsight, everything looks obvious.
But in the moment… it never is.
Back then, it wasn’t “this will hit $184K.”
It was just a risky bet.
And even today — not every project wins.
In fact, most don’t.
Yes, the upside exists.
But so does the silence around everything that failed.
And that’s what people should really think about.
Not just what happened…
But what almost happened — and didn’t.