In the past 10 years, it has not been easy: terrible hate talk about Bitcoin, constant threats from the government, many restrictions, a severe bear market, and attacks (collapse of exchanges). But overall, Bitcoin is doing very well.

The price of Bitcoin is not what even surprises me; my biggest surprise today is that the governments that tried to stop Bitcoin are buying huge amounts of Bitcoin, and as of today, the mining industry has become a global competition.

I am not that old. I heard about BTC in 2018 first but left because I did not care much about it, then joined the forum in 2021, and since then I have been learning about it. So it is hard to tell what a person from the early days would say about BTC. But I think it can be attributed to institutional adoption because, from what I have read, governments hated it back then. They said it was used for bad money, and, as a matter of fact, even in 2021 I saw these sentiments. But after the ETF approval, things changed a lot. I can see the change in the sentiments. Maybe a new person joining after 2024 might not sense it, but people who were here before could tell.

So it can be institutional adoption. When I joined the industry, my focus was mainly on metaverse projects. I used to think in a way that these realities would increase adoption because I also used to game, and I thought BTC has a bright future due to its decentralized and digital nature. Later, I came to realize more things once the Metaverse narrative died, because it died but BTC stayed, so it was one point for me to believe, not the hardest one. Also, I never thought governments would adopt Bitcoin.

The next hardest point for me to believe will be the acceptance of mixers and the privacy, by governments, although Matic has already introduced one for institutional investors. (Not advertising)

Well back then when Bitcoin was at its early stage, it faced a lot of criticism that made many people not believe in it. And after all that criticism those who criticized the asset the most are the ones who have massive investments in it now. The fun fact is that with all the innovations of Bitcoin till now its core rules like the fixed supply cap limited to only 21 million, its decentralization, and the fact that nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto really is ,show us how trustworthy the asset is. While I believe there are a lot of things that make Bitcoin valuable to me, the only shocking thing about Bitcoin is how its mysteries and its core protocols since 2010 have remained without ever getting compromised or changed in any way. That's all......

I am still very much surprised that even with the 17 year history that Bitcoin has that there are still people who still consider it as a scam because they think that it is something that has just been around year or even lesser than.
I know that by the time Bitcoin gets to 20 years in history there will still be people who still think of it as scam and sometimes all of these people not that they do not know the truth it's just that they completely want to ignore it just so that they can continue to have a point to criticize Bitcoin from. The age of bitcoin should attest for its credibility and give investors more confidence that they are not making a mistake with deciding to keep holding.

I am glad all the Anti-Bitcoin hate did not have an effect on Bitcoin. But China certainly did, almost a decade back.

Maybe the reason for it not having an effect is that Bitcoin is open to the public and 100% transparent on how it works. Anyone who wants to can read the code and check the truth for themselves. All the Anti-Bitcoin FUD was lies or speculative.

Whales love manipulating the market. I would not trust FUD nor FOMO coming from anything they say or do. Many rich institutional investors love to be bearish during dumps just to push the price lower and make more people sell.

I'm still surprised that not everyone had known Bitcoin upon the number of years it had stayed, many in the world doesn't know what Bitcoin is and had never heard of it, I am still surprised.

Despite the chaos, governmental ban, crashes in price and other negative and positive news around Bitcoin, many doesn't and haven't heard of Bitcoin, I did research where I am currently living, some people don't know about it.

I think Bitcoin still has lots of work to do, lots of outreach to the mainstream to accomplish, it's not done yet.

One of the few things I would be surprised about is actually that not everyone has Bitcoin, I mean not everyone actually see it as a good innovation as me and you so it's normal. Humans tend to always take a negative approach towards good things, so I believe this will be the case with Bitcoin and many other good innovations.

Some people have tied Bitcoin to being a fraudulent coin that scammers use, which is totally the wrong narrative and this alone will take some part of the many people that still haven't chosen Bitcoin.

There are some people who have criticized Bitcoin since its inception, their thoughts on Bitcoin have not changed and will never change in the future. Those who criticized Bitcoin in the past are now seeing the spread, acceptance, trust, and price increase of Bitcoin, and all these things have been able to prove those people's criticisms completely wrong. There are some people who, despite truly seeing the benefits or acceptability of Bitcoin, still think that Bitcoin is a scam. They are wearing wooden glasses. They have not been able to change their thoughts yet and their thoughts on Bitcoin will never change in the future.

Anyway, there will always be some people like that, it is very natural, they will never be able to have any impact on the acceptance and trust in Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin is gradually increasing, the trust and acceptance of the general public is increasing and in the future the arab will increase and Bitcoin will reach the highest above of all time ATH They will see and regret it.

Reaching $100k when it was a few cents when it was priced in. I think that's one of the hardest to believe with what's happening right now. Going back to that time, it's full of doubt and uncertainty but that has become the foundation of bitcoin and why the adoption has increased. The investors became part of its growth and as a community has the same goal and belief on how it will become in the future. So for me, that's the hardest to believe right now when it has passed $126k to be specific as its last ATH if we would go back to 2010 when the price was like a giveaway back then.