We can say bitcoin is now an adult lol… Honestly it has been an interesting journey, I wasn’t here from the get go but I’ve read and researched about the process and it’s nothing short of wonderful. 18 years ago the white paper was published to the mailing list, almost immediately on the 2nd of November James A. Donald acknowledged the need for such a system but questioned whether it was scalable to the required size.
 
18 years later, the network has been able to develop several approaches to handle some of the scaling demands. In 2017 Segwit was introduced which changed the transaction data accounting and further increased block capacity which enabled improvements like the lightning.
The lightning network allowed multiple payments without the need to record every payment individually on chain. In 2021, Taproot was introduced which improved transaction flexibility, privacy and more efficient for complex spendings, I believe with time other scalability questions would be eventually solved.

Happy birthday Bitcoin!

Sorry to hear about your loss, but a loss does not mean the business itself was a scam. It just means you were unlucky, considering you did everything right. In this situation, I would only say that when you do your part honestly and things still go bad, that's exactly when we should not regret it. Instead, we should keep it up. But if we fail to do our part honestly, then it's our mistake, and in this situation, we already know the reason.

If Bitcoin failed to deliver like your land, what would you do? Would you give it more time, or would you leave it? I don't even know what you did with that land afterwards. Probably that was just an example, but I got curious, so that's why I asked. I hope you won't mind me asking.

You can use this site with a chart for yearly candles.
https://charts.bitbo.io/yearly-candles/

Cryptorank.io with a table for Bitcoin annual price, with high price, low price, and % change.
https://cryptorank.io/price/bitcoin/analytics

18 years look like yesterday and Bitcoin has gone very far since then, but it's not right to say early Bitcoin adopters did not face with any challenge in Bitcoin industry and market.

Almost like a football club.
Well a good club that do act out of place sometimes but at the end they are heading in the right direction.
Compared to most I learnt about Bitcoin late around 2020 and knew barely nothing.
But I'm sure I'm still early
We all still are
Because there are years more to go.

Social media really isn't the best place to learn about something you know nothing about.

  If I'm not mistaken today should be the white-paper birthday or something
Since the network itself was birthed January.

Honestly, I can't believe that some dude changed my life so much. The past 10+ years of my life, by now around 15 years, have changed drastically because some dude wanted to create something, and he did. Thanks to Bitcoin, I spent an entire decade of my life, which is a huge chunk of someone's life, working in the crypto world; it is incredible.

I think it is clear that we are going to end up with something that would be very nice to achieve; I am sure this is great. Thank you to Satoshi for a wonderful 18 years.

Only for the few years I have known Bitcoin, it's has been blessed year that I'm happy that I am among the people who have entrusted their money in Bitcoin than leaving it in fiat that comes with little or no profits for years.

Now of course, with Bitcoin, I can dream of having a secure future with huge profits to make along the line. This is all because I accepted Bitcoin as my store of value

Well i will be more thrilled to have spent 18 years as a bitcoin user myself. But being for 18 years on top of the charts in a highly competitive world where something like Bitcoin emerging from being an invaluable coin to becoming the crypto with highest Mcap that challenges many assets that have been around for many thousands and hundred years so yeah that is a great progress. Though not a good bday present considering the Binance Hack recently

I cant believe that Bitcoin is here for so long... Even though I first heard about BTC back in 2013. it took me years before I decided to purchase some. This is also time when I joined the forum. After getting first satoshis first learning about crypto was just a new hobby, but with time it really changed my life as I learned about inflation, economics and self custody, lost crypto a few times, earned some too, and got to know some good people that shared the same interests in the process.

I imagine people who lost hope in dollar and other currencies in the world during the financial crisis and not hoping for anything better but today they have bitcoin which was never expected and it didn’t just break records it is a paradigm shift from what everyone used to know to something very different and unconditional. Never surrendered to pressure and still coexist the fiat. I can’t also image when bitcoin was first created because I was probably not fully aware of the world and what’s happening around the globe.

You really remind me of my initial days in the crypto space when I bought my Bitcoin.
I had some friends of mine at the university who used to talk about the Bitcoin market and sometimes made a profit from it by trading. I used to ignore their talk those days. Because I was not interested in this. But with the passage of time, their talks gained my attention, and then I started to do my research, and then I bought my first Bitcoin. Honestly, I made good money from Bitcoin, not by trading but by holding it for a long period of time. And from then on, I really learned a lot of things about Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency space. I never thought the knowledge I learned in the crypto space could come from any other place. And this forum played a bonus role for me to learn more and more about Bitcoin.