It was like 10 years when Lehman Brothers collapsed followed by a global and economic disaster. But we have to thank that this event has happened otherwise Satoshi wouldn't created Bitcoin in the first place. It was the catalyst for him to invent a P2P currency without any intermediary (usually banks), and to operate without any government's intervention, thus decentralization.
Personally though, I was affected by this event, was laid out after September 2008 and was out of job for about a month. I was caught by surprised because there's some assurance that we wouldn't be affected, but damn we are totally wrong.
How about you guys, you directly affected by it? Do you think that if Lehman was saved by US government, Satoshi wouldn't push to create bitcoin? Or it is inevitable? The man himself will release it with or without the financial meltdown in 2008?
What you are telling about the 2008 financial disaster and no one was knowing about bitcoin that time , it was in main steam from 2011 so who ever was affected in 2008 were not able to get help from bitcoin. Not only you almost 90% of the world financial system got affected in 2008 disaster.
Obviously, no one can get help from bitcoin because during that time, Satoshi hasn't publicly released it. What I'm trying to tell is that the global meltdown in 2008 may have greatly influence him to immediately roll-out his invention to us.
@gambitcoin53 - I understand that he already made a lot of progress prior to the disaster, but he could have been released it sometime before, however, in the next couple of months after the fall of Lehman's and the subsequent effect in brought, made me theorized that it has impacted him in his decisions to deliver it right away in early 2009.
