I have thought so much about what I would have done if I bought Bitcoin back at $100 when I first considered but got scared because of all the ties with the drug industry.
Seeing how my trading in the futures markets had gone these past few years, its likely that I would have sold after just doubling my money, and then seeing it run up to $1000 very quickly, I would have been too scared to get back in. Or its also likely that I would have scaled in as it was dropping, and then been "stuck" for years while waiting for a break even exit.
Now, its also likely that I would have done my research like I did this time around and saw the light, and maybe even made huge gains in some alt coins, so its hard to say.
But I do think that the forced hodling of Mt. Gox is likely the strategy that has outperformed almost everyone else who was around back then (with the exception of guys like Max Keiser or the Winkloss twins, or Andeas A). I have no idea what the average payout is for the Mt. Gox customers, but I'm sure its likely measured in whole bitcoins, if not bitcoins in double digits. So its kind of ironic that the smartest thing to have done was to have had your bitcoins inaccessible for over a decade.
or Hal Finney level of intelligence RIP