Back in 2011, my friend Jake was an early adopter who couldn't stop talking about Bitcoin. At the time, I shrugged it off as just another tech fad. Jake, however, was convinced it would revolutionize finance. One day, he excitedly told me he had bought 100 Bitcoins for $50. I laughed, thinking he had wasted his money. Fast forward to 2021, and Bitcoin had surged past $60,000. Jake's $50 investment had turned into a small fortune. He used part of it to buy his dream house and still had plenty left. Jake's foresight taught me a valuable lesson about the unpredictable nature of emerging technologies.