It’s down down down if you entered at a high price AND sold within 3yrs
No one who held BTC for 3-4 yrs straight has lost money on their investment throughout the entire history of BTC
There will be a point in time where this won’t be true anymore, but I think we are far from it
Someone has to pay for all the Bitcoin mining around the world, so it's probable that Bitcoin as a whole is net negative. That is, the average investor loses money on Bitcoin.
EDIT: let’s check back in in 1-3 yrs here and see if people who bought last year and held are doing :-)
Analogously, there are some people who have won a lot of money from casinos but the average gambler loses money because the house always wins. Miners are 'the house' for this analogy
BTC supply is growing at a rate of less than 2% now. 90% of the supply is already mined.
Miners play a very small role now in getting new supply