As I think back to when I was 17 years old I realize something. How little I knew. What I thought I had known when I was 17 is just a mere inkling of what I know today and honestly it just goes to show you that Bitcoin has a long road ahead of it and there is just so much more growth to come. I am very excited to see bitcoin evolve.

Honestly, the price is probably the thing that surprises me the most.

If you told someone back in 2010 that Bitcoin would one day be worth tens of thousands of dollars per coin, most people would probably think you were crazy.

But beyond the price, I think the other surprising thing is how long Bitcoin has survived. So many people have predicted that it would die, be banned, or become irrelevant, yet here we are 17 years later.

And I think someone from 2010 would have an even harder time believing that governments, banks, and large institutions would eventually take Bitcoin seriously. That part would have sounded completely crazy back then.

First of all back in 2010, owning and using the internet was a big thing. At that time launching something revolutionary didnt receive much appreciation. But yes, Satoshi was a visionary and he knew what he was doing. Thanks to the decentralized nature of the coin, it soon gained popularity among youngsters.

The thing that surprises me the most is the price ofc. Back in 2015–16, the younger version of me didn’t know that the coins he was gambling with at a casino, which were hardly worth around $400 to 500$ at that time, would be worth 100k USD after 10 years.

I have seen what Bitcoin is capable of and have carefully observed its price over the years. Hence I have continued accumulating coins whenever I have had spare money. So the value of Bitcoin and its growing demand for investment and accumulation are what surprise me the most.

I think the most important thing behind Bitcoin's survival for so long is its fixed supply and lack of regulation. Governments can print paper money whenever they want to increase inflation, but no power in the world can change the 21 million Bitcoin account. As far as I know, banks initially wanted to dismiss it as a scam, but when they saw that people were taking their savings into crypto, excluding the small interest from the bank, they were in existential crisis. This is exactly why in January 2024, the SEC was forced to approve institutions to launch spot Bitcoin ETFs.

Adoption increased, but we still have people who are making the same jokes about Bitcoin reaching $1M, we cannot have everyone start believing in Bitcoin, no matter where the price of Bitcoin reaches, it is very unlikely that we will have everyone believing and supporting Bitcoin. There will always be a Thomas who won't stop criticizing Bitcoin.

To the question from the OP, as long as the Bitcoin price doesn't stop increasing, we will have more years of surprises. Bitcoin price has been one of the very pieces of motivation for investors, and why more investors are joining to accumulate Bitcoin.

I also used to believe that everyone who has access to the internet should know about bitcoin, but that's not the case here. Some people can come across stories which feature it and don't pay attention to it or bother doing research about it, but yet they are in this internet space.

Those in rural areas might have the majority of those who are not aware of bitcoin, but urban areas still have people like that, if you read stories about some people who get scammed on the internet you can commonly come across the victims narrating how the scammer was introduced them to something called bitcoin which was their first time of hearing about it even while they are active on social media.

The network congestion is common, it happens because of the soaring transactions that occur in the On-chain network so that there are many transactions that are still unconfirmed.
A few days ago I was also affected by network congestion and after that it was normal.

The security of the Bitcoin network is now completely watchable, because the Bitcoin developer community is so solid around the world
that every code is closely monitored due to the Open Source Code that developers can monitor around the world.

In the beginning of the emergence of Bitcoin there were 2 attacks that were quite famous and had an impact on Bitcoin, such as attacks.
1. Bug 184 Billion Bitcoin (Value Overflow Incident - 2010)
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/24949343769146
2 Bug Inflation (CVE-2018-1714 - 2018)
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/

You can read the details on the link I pinned.
The 2 attacks are indeed the most threatening, but after the Bitcoin Code is updated by the developer,
any attack is now no longer able to penetrate the network or manipulate the Bitcoin network.

Some just because of the surge in transactions due to Bitcoin Layer 2 like transactions in the ordinal network etc.
Now the main security risk lies only in its users, because every user or those who have Bitcoin assets must be more careful not to lose their Bitcoin access on personal wallets, on the exchange or elsewhere that is the storage of Bitcoin.

"The crazy part" of it all.

For the first time in history, a project started by a supposed unknown guy under a pseudonym changed the global economic order without asking States and banks for permission. And it happened only through the people. Governments and banks had no choice, and were forced to recognize what they want to ignore or destroy. And the funny part is that now they are running to accumulate it, building services on it and around it.

What began as a simple experiment is becoming a historic monetary revolution, in just a few years (compared to past evolution of money), and probably it will become a new standard.


These things are what gives me pride.

I don't think there is any wallet where government from anyone has single handedly bought Bitcoin, most of their reserves are Bitcoin seized from criminals forfeited to government wallets. Only institutional investors are making the big move but there wouldn't be government interest in Bitcoin all of a sudden if not for institutional intervention, they made this connection simple between the government and the community, Bitcoin has always been anti government.

If you want to have Bitcoin adoption, you can't win by fighting the government. Look around the privacy coins, the government made sure they are delisted from exchanges. Now, imagine the way Bitcoin has always been the way the narration used to be pushed then, not sure if Bitcoin will survive the heat. There was no reason to be anti government in the first place, it wouldn't be healthy for institutions that is why they formed the relationship in the first place at the same time it's to protect their investment.

I agree with you. As Bitcoin has become more successful, from the outside it may seem that the community will become more mature, helpful and confident over time. But in reality, just because a technology or asset is successful, the people around that asset do not automatically become better. Bitcoin can give people a tool for financial sovereignty, but it cannot erase people's jealousy, ego, and behavior. And so many people have come to know about Bitcoin because the negative things about Bitcoin have been spread by the government or international media at different times. Their negative news has basically automatically created a marketing for Bitcoin . And when a new invention benefits people but there are some particular groups that will have a negative impact on them, they will always talk negatively about that new system.