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.

What would you have found hardest to believe back then?

Just because governments have finally started to accept Bitcoin, it doesn't mean they don't hate it anymore or aren't against it, but it's just that they've realized that they can't push it away because its craze and popularity are unmatchable, people just kept getting involved over time and then also institutions started getting involved, and then governments realized that they can't stop it anymore, so they decided that instead of just trying to resist it and push it away, they decided they are going to allow it and then just regulate it and everything around it so that they can also benefit from its usage by taxing people who are involved and using cryptocurrencies.

It's true that a lot of people actually didn't expect this to happen this quickly, but I think it was expected sooner or later, because governments, at least all of them, could never ban or abandon Bitcoin completely because it was growing so fast that it became the fastest growing asset of the world in such a short period leaving assets that have been around for centuries behind in this race.

For me I think the most surprising thing is the level of institutional adoption, which occurred pretty early.

The US government. In 2021, Donald Trump called Bitcoin a scam during his interview with  Fox Business, he said that he hates Bitcoin because it is like a competition against the United States dollar. Fast forward to March 2025, same Donald Trump signed an executive order to declare Bitcoin as strategic reserve asset, that answers your question.

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.

Bitcoin has been around for 17 years now.

Looking back, what part of Bitcoin’s journey has surprised you the most?

And what do you think someone from 2010 would find hardest to believe about Bitcoin today?

Maybe the price, institutional adoption, countries holding it, the size of the mining industry, or simply how long Bitcoin has survived.

What would you have found hardest to believe back then?

Bitcoin is 17 years old but I have known about Bitcoin for about 8 years and in this 8-year history I have heard a lot about digital currency but initially I did not believe them.
The biggest reason behind my belief is that I was very surprised that an invisible currency called digital currency would be so popular. But that is what I was in disbelief about. It was actually my first surprise and disbelief that an invisible currency floating in the air would be so sky-high in the future. Many experienced people told me that it would become digital gold in the future but I still dismissed their words as unimportant but that has become a reality.

Bitcoin has been around for 17 years now.

Looking back, what part of Bitcoin’s journey has surprised you the most?

And what do you think someone from 2010 would find hardest to believe about Bitcoin today?

Maybe the price, institutional adoption, countries holding it, the size of the mining industry, or simply how long Bitcoin has survived.

What would you have found hardest to believe back then?

Bitcoin has been around for 17 years now.

Looking back, what part of Bitcoin’s journey has surprised you the most?

And what do you think someone from 2010 would find hardest to believe about Bitcoin today?

Maybe the price, institutional adoption, countries holding it, the size of the mining industry, or simply how long Bitcoin has survived.

What would you have found hardest to believe back then?