I loved the idea behind bitcoin since the very beginning.
That's why I got into Bitcoin in the first place. The realization that I could make a lot of money from it came later.
It was all about decentralized, open-source peer-to-peer networking. This is what I call the real New World Order.
When I first heard about Napster, it wasn't free music that fascinated me. It was the idea of P2P file sharing. I watched as the process evolved from centralized to partially centralized and then to fully decentralized, ending up with bittorrent magnet links and torrent portals existing on redundant cloud servers based on multiple continents.
I watched Wikipedia evolve from a sketchy platform where anyone could post any bullshit they wanted to my go-to site for research. The site itself may be centralized but the content is controlled by a worldwide decentralized community of contributors who keep it honest.
Social media sites are similar. The sites themselves may be so centralized that they are all basically operated by Prism but the content is still supplied by a worldwide community. Likewise crowdfunding.
Long live the real New World Order.
it's very good we crossed $1000 once again
Indeed. It wasn't long ago that $1000 seemed like a dream.
Remember when we first hit $1000 back in 2013? People were ecstatic. They planned international Bitcoin millionaire parties and bought Lamborghinis and castles.
Then some people convinced themselves that we'd never reach $1000 again. It was all fake, they said. MtGox, Willybot, Beanie Babies, tulip bubbles, etc.
Now it's become our new base line. If it dips below, it's only for a few hours, or as we saw this past weekend, a day.
Not bad considering that one esteemed moderator posted about the "myth" of triple digits back in the summer of 2013.
Just look at us now.