Opinion
|3 min ReadArthur Hayes tells Bitcoiners to drop the Lambo dream
Maya Chen
Senior Analyst
Published
Jan 16, 2026
The hook
You want the fast score. You want the car. Arthur Hayes says that mindset gets you wrecked. He told Kyle Chasse on YouTube that impatience ends in liquidation. If you bought yesterday for a Lambo tomorrow, you are thinking wrong. Long holders are laughing. Six months hurts. Two to ten years wins. That is the game he plays. That is the game that pays. Interview.
The case for patience
Bitcoin is not lagging. That is Hayes’ point. He calls it the best asset against currency debasement. Ever. Curvo data shows an average annualized return of 82.4 percent over the last decade. That is beautiful. That is historic. Source: Curvo.
Price today sits below the all time high. The August 14 peak was
115,890, according to CoinMarketCap. Gold hit a new record at
150,000 yet. That question misses the point, Hayes says.The bigger lens
Hayes pushes back on the flows talk. He rejects the idea that Bitcoin must chase stock and gold highs or wait for global M2 to rotate. He says the premise is flawed. Measured in gold, the S&P 500 still has not recovered from 2008. The housing market looks worse on that basis. Big US tech stands out a bit. Measured in Bitcoin, most of it vanishes on the chart. His words: the performance is “just so ridiculous.”
He has laid out targets before. In April 2025 he projected Bitcoin at $250,000 by year end. A month later, Unchained’s Joe Burnett made the same call. Those are big numbers. They are not promises. Here is the real takeaway. Stop staring at the ticker. Stack, wait, and let compounding do the heavy lift. The impatient chase a Lambo. The patient buy freedom.
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