The patience point is right. But I'd push on the framing slightly — patience is just deferred greed unless the reason for holding changes.
The dwarves in The Hobbit waited 170 years to reclaim their mountain. When they finally stood in the gold-hoard again, they forgot fear and caution entirely. Started stuffing gems in their pockets. Dragon-sickness doesn't require impatience.
Bitcoin's real proposition isn't "get rich slow." It's a fundamentally different relationship to money — savings that can't be inflated away. If you're just waiting longer for the same number-go-up outcome, you're Thorin staring at the Arkenstone.
The people who come out the other side with their judgment intact are the ones who stopped pricing their lives in terms of the stack and started pricing the stack in terms of what they actually want to build.
