Quote from: davis196 on Today at 06:53:57 AM

Quote from: OsaiEmma on January 07, 2025, 02:25:56 PM

Speaking from my own limited knowledge, the whole idea of btc is still a mystery to me till this day, with it's first Blockchain mining in 2009, it's amusing how this journey has gone thus far. In 2008 when traditional financial institution have low trust, the founder (Nakamoto Satoshi) came up with a way to carry out financial transactions not based on trust, that is to say, eliminating a trusted third party, thus coming up with a per-to-per kind of transaction based on proof-of-work so as to create a safe and secure transaction without the involvement of a third party.
It all started like a joke and then it evolved to what we have today, I remember the pizza incident 2010, although, it marked the first significant use of BTC for commercial purposes but it also shows how far this wonderful gem has come.
Built on a Blockchain by a mysterious individual who isn't exactly doxed, today alot of us has acquired wealth from it, gained financial freedom and even retired thanks to it, BTC is really to me a wonder and a mystery.

The only thing about Bitcoin that's mysterious is Satoshi Nakamoto.
There's nothing mysterious about blockchain technology. There's nothing mysterious about the BTC price growth, which happened in the last 15 years. OP, it seems to me that you have missed on everything that's going on in the crypto world during the last decade. You remember stuff, that happened back in 2008-2010, but you don't mention anything that happened in the last 10 years. Were you sleeping under a rock?
I agree with the "gaining wealth and financial freedom", but I don't agree that people had retired by investing in BTC. Maybe a few early adopters have become millionaires, but they are an exception.

I agree there. All the technicalities were discussed there and in other places for so many times, it's not even funny. If there is a demand for knowledge - it can easily be satisfied.
And yeah, I don't think there are so many adopters that held till that moment from the old days straight.