In 2018 Bitcoin fell 84 percent. The people who sold near the bottom locked the loss in for good, and almost none of them lacked intelligence. They lacked practice. This room gives you that practice with real history and zero dollars at risk: check what an old buy is really worth, train your nerve on the actual crashes, and see where the cycles point next. Fifteen minutes in here and the market will make more sense than it ever has.
Piecing together an old purchase? The platform you used might be long gone, so this list deliberately includes the closed and collapsed ones, because those are the names people struggle to recall. Search by name or country, then tap any card for the story and a link.
Founding years and details verified against Wikipedia and company or press sources, checked July 2026. A place in this list is a fact of history, never a recommendation. Check any platform's current status, licensing and security yourself before you trust it with a cent.
Pop your email in and I'll send you your scenario link to keep, plus the weekly cycle read, the same live read you see in Door three, in your inbox each week. Leave any time with one click.
You start with $1,000 bought at the worst possible moment, the very top. The weeks then play out exactly as they really did. When the fall gets heavy the room pauses and asks what you want to do. There is no right answer in the moment, and that is the point: you get to feel it here, where it costs nothing.
DCA means dollar cost averaging: putting in a small fixed amount every week no matter what the price does. The question everyone argues about is whether that beats investing the same money as one lump sum on day one. Set it up, make your guess, then see what the real data says.
Since 2018 the market's mood has been measured daily by the Fear & Greed index. Here is a strategy people love the sound of: only buy on the weeks the crowd is terrified, when the index reads under 20. Same total money as buying steadily every single week. Guess first, then run it on the real history.
The Training Room is a taste of the full Her Frontier crypto curriculum. Leave your email and you'll get the weekly cycle read now, and first access when the full course opens.
Bitcoin has moved in rough four year waves around each "halving", the moment new supply is cut in half. This reads the shape of the last four cycles, factors in how each run has climbed less than the one before, checks today's market mood, and lays out the kind of range past cycles have carved out, purely to help you understand the pattern. It is a scenario built from history, never a promise about the future.
| If past cycles repeated | Price | Market cap | vs gold |
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Live mood from the Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Market cap uses Bitcoin's real supply schedule, about 20 million coins now and capped at 21 million. The peak range comes from the four past cycles and the way each has grown less than the last, with gold's value near $20 trillion for scale. Nobody can know the next peak, so treat this as a way to think in ranges.
Pick a goal that means something in your life, tell the room what you hold, and it answers in honest ranges using the same three paths as the compounding dials below. The bear path may say "never", and that honesty is the feature.
This takes what you hold today and grows it one year at a time. Slide the three dials to say how fast you think Bitcoin might climb each year, then read the sentence and watch the chart move. Nobody knows the real number, so treat these as your own guesses rather than forecasts.
| In… | If it goes badly | Your guess | If it goes well |
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Each line grows your holding from today's price at the yearly rate you chose above. The growth Bitcoin managed in its first fifteen years is very unlikely to repeat for fifty more, so treat the best case as a ceiling and the whole picture as a scenario you are thinking with.
The read you just used updates itself from live data. I send it out once a week with what changed and what it has meant in past cycles. Honest ranges, never hype, unsubscribe any time.
2008 to 2009, the idea. In October 2008 a nine page whitepaper signed "Satoshi Nakamoto" described a form of electronic cash with no bank in the middle. The first block was mined on 3 January 2009. For more than a year Bitcoin had no market price at all.
2010, the first price. Someone paid 10,000 coins for two pizzas in May 2010. That put the price near four tenths of a cent. By the end of the year it was around 30 cents.
2011, the first mania. Bitcoin reached about $31 in June, then fell roughly 90% to around $2. This became the pattern.
2013, the world starts watching. Two separate runs in one year carried it from about $13 to over $1,100 by December.
2014 to 2015, the long quiet. The Mt. Gox exchange collapsed and took a lot of trust with it. Bitcoin drifted down to around $200.
2017, everyone piles in. It ran from about $1,000 to nearly $19,700 by December, then gave back about 84% through the following year to around $3,200.
2020 to 2021, the institutions arrive. After a crash to about $4,000 in the COVID panic, it climbed past $60,000 and set a high near $69,000 in November 2021.
2022, the reckoning. Higher interest rates and the collapse of Terra, Celsius and FTX pulled it down to about $16,500.
2024, ETFs and the fourth halving. US spot Bitcoin funds launched in January and the supply issuance halved again in April. Bitcoin touched $100,000 for the first time late in the year.
2025 to 2026, a record then a pullback. It set an all-time high of about $124,750 on 7 October 2025, then slid back through the first half of 2026. This room reads the live price, so "today" is always current.
Every four year cycle so far has run the same shape: a steep climb, then a fall of 70% to 85%. For someone who buys and holds, the same $1,000 can become a windfall or a loss largely from the day it went in, and the training room upstairs lets you feel that before you ever risk a dollar.
Historical Bitcoin prices are real weekly closes from the Blockchain.com market-price index, 2010 to now, cross-checked against Yahoo Finance and CoinGecko, with the all-time high of $124,777 on 7 October 2025 pinned exactly. The share-market comparison uses the S&P 500 Total Return index with dividends included, and the savings comparison uses a stated flat 3% a year as a typical high-interest average. The live price and the last year of daily detail come from CoinGecko, and the market mood from the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, both read in your own browser. If you save a scenario, the only thing stored is your email and that scenario link.
This is an educational room. It is not financial advice. What happened before tells you nothing certain about what comes next, and Bitcoin can lose most of its value.
A Her Frontier room by Nicola Harvey ·