Hello future. The date is April 14th, three years ago (2015). I am americanpegasus, the author of the Declaration of Blockchain Independance and Labrys (the first fictional novel built around bitcoin, to be released in a few months time). In 2018 I am also famous as one of bitcoin's biggest proponents, though here in 2015 I am just getting started.
I write this as a greeting from a different time. A time when a million bits cost $220 (a whole 'bitcoin'), and a single U.S. Dollar could buy you 4,500 entire bits.
I know, that sounds crazy. But don't envy us. The decision seems obvious in retrospect, but even as one of bitcoin's biggest fans, I tell you the atmosphere is anything but obvious right now.
Many of you already knew about bitcoin in 2015, and many of you didn't. Some of you heard about it and dismissed it as silliness. I know I certainly derided it when I first encountered it at the peak of the 2013 bubble; I thought it was some kind of World of Warcraft gold or something. Regardless, I'll bet you certainly know about it by now. Things have probably changed slightly, huh?
As I write this in 2015, the pieces are all set for some truly monumental movements over the next few years. We have governments increasingly acknowledging and regulating this 'made-up internet money' that no one took seriously at its inception. Tech startups are springing to life around bitcoin at a pace not seen since the dot-com boom of the 90's. Venture capitalists are all eying crypto-currency with a shrewd eye while businesses that crypto threatens to disrupt are all sounding battle cries. And yet, here we sit at the end of the longest and most brutal crash in the history of the currency wondering what the future will hold. Prices are *insanely* low, and like I said... a million bits runs the average consumer about $220 at current prices. They aren't hard to get ahold of either; the interested can easily buy them from a number of reputable companies.
You might wonder,
"Wow! Why didn't everyone see it? Why didn't everyone buy in... if only I had bought some bitcoins back in 2015 I'd be rich... I had $x,xxx lying around but I didn't know. Damnit!" Listen, many of us now have the
same frustrations about 2011 when we could have had bitcoins for scant dollars apiece. But this is the nature of the beast.
Every moment in bitcoins history is a good time to buy because it is a mathematical creature that won't stop growing until it dominates and saturates the globe... and will keep going after that too. Like gold has done throughout millenia it will keep pace with the growth and expansion of human civilization.
It is a savings account ledger who's underlying representation is the fate of civilization itself. That's some pretty powerful backing.
And again, the decision seems obvious to you now, but I assure you it is
not (from where I sit here in 2015). It takes a fair amount of omniscience, brilliance, patience, and wisdom to buy into bitcoin at the present moment. Paid trolls roam the internet attacking bitcoin and any 'idiot' foolish enough to hold or buy it. The average person has heard of bitcoin, but they still think of it primarily in conjuction with illegal activities and they have no major interest in acquiring it. People who are interested in bitcoin are seen as slightly weird, by both mainstream culture and mainstream finance. Most of the investment bankers and finance gurus I mention bitcoin to just smile at me like I'm a silly pleb, and they immediately acquire a cloak of smugness. "Oh...
bitcoin." To them it's essentially a multi-level marketing scheme or some penny-auction nonsense. They have no clue what is coming, and their little rodent brains wouldn't believe the evidence even if you could lay it out in front of them. Their egos can't accept the truth:
Bitcoin wins. It's the same truth you probably know/suspect by April, 2018. As I have previously written, bitcoin is a financial virus that will consume the value of all civilization. The only cure would be for humans to completely stop acting like humans and that isn't going to happen. Bitcoin will win because it is one of the most brilliant mathematical creations in the history of humanity, the ultimate application for those cool little prime numbers we discovered so many millenia ago.
The atmosphere is toxic, but some of us see through the nonsense. We can see the end result, and understand the eventual end-game scenario that bitcoin will create. And it's going to be incredible.
I know you wish you could come back to 2015 and buy bitcoin, but don't feel bad. Even if you
were here you likely would think it was a silly waste of money... a bad investment... the same as I did in 2012 and 2013. All you can do now is understand that bitcoin isn't going away, and
any time is a good time to invest in bitcoin. So don't worry about future crashes in the thousands, and tens of thousands of dollars. Bitcoin is the best form of money humanity has ever created and it's not going anywhere.
Oh, by the way, you're all invited to my kick ass 2018 Halloween party. See you there.
