420 is floor calling it now

420 is floor, buy up till $500 while you can!

Just wait until the next boom cycle, when FOX "news" sets their sights on the new threat to the oligarchy.

420 is the basement, we're there. Nowhere to go but up.

Hold for 8-10 years, billionaire. Congrats

I wouldn't ask the question "if" crypto will replace fiat money, I would ask the question, "WHEN" will crypto render fiat obsolete?

Jeff Garzik, Eric Vorhees, Andreas Antonopolous, Satoshi Nakamoto, and..  me!

Correct. "Early" is relative. Although most people getting into Bitcoin today probably don't feel like "early adopters", that will certainly change in five or ten years time, when they will have been the first 0.5% of the population involved in the new form of money.

Is writing history books for infant technologies (5 yrs old) the new thing now?

Great. Let us know when you invent a source of infinite free energy. Until then electricity - and therefore mining (= securing the network) - costs money.

No, I think Satoshi's "first" future was the apocalyptic world, that's why he travelled back in time. See, in Satoshi's timeline, Bitcoin hadn't been invented before the extremely violent fiat economic collapse. Billions were killed in the nuclear war that followed.

So he traveled back in time to invent bitcoin 30 years before the collapse, creating a new timeline free from the apocalypse of his childhood. Maybe throw some aliens in there just to mix it up.

You and Stryker are making a classic mistake. You're starting from the conclusion you want, and then working backwards to speculate on potential evidence for this conclusion.

That's putting the cart before the horse. You start with the evidence you see, and then work forwards towards probable conclusions.

I don't think so. The idea of decentralized network at its core was the real innovation, and that wasn't Satoshi. That came from the developers of the HTTP protocol back in the early 90s.

The public ledger itself already existed in the form of torrent technology. Satoshi only built upon that already-existing technological foundation, adding encryption and solving the Byzantine General's problem.

Brilliant? yes, perhaps even genius. But Satoshi is certainly standing on the shoulders of giants.

I think Satoshi was/is betting that humanity would figure out the transition to crypto one way or another. Deception has overwhelmed truth for a long time in our society, but the dawn of the information age has been rapidly flipping that dynamic on its head.

The tide is coming in now, as it always does. This will be remembered as the decade in which the masters of deception* were buried beneath their crumbling Sandcastle of Lies.

*banksters and their polit puppet pals

This. Superstition is the end of reason. You know, the intellectual difference between a person of median IQ and a chimpanzee is actually less than the difference between a person of median IQ and a genius (150+ stanford-binet IQ). Consider the implications - Satoshi is almost a different species of primate from average folk.

Success Council is a scam organization that wants nothing other than your money. They market themselves as a way to "protect your money", sound familiar? Yeah, it's the same service banks offered in the earliest days of banking. They are not even the first PoW trolls.

These clowns are implying Bitcoin's SHA256 security isn't already good enough. This guy says Bitcoin holders pay for mining through inflation, but that's not what's happening. Without the miners, the bitcoin network has ZERO security and we all lose our coins anyway.

Basically this clown thinks he is smarter than Satoshi, if he really is there's nothing stopping him from creating his own altcoin that will be superior. So why doesn't he do that? Because he's full of shit.

Yes, I remember reading about this months ago. So is this thread just rehashing old news for FUD purposes or what?

When you see a thread like this, flag as speculation and move on. Fastest way to get rid of it.

How much vinyl would it take to record the blockchain? What about magnetic tape, 80s style?