In 2013, @ErikVoorhees, @ibaruchmiller and I gave a lecture to NYU students. We explained at $33 a coin that bitcoin will be their future! I hope they listened!
I still have the boarding passes from 2014 when I was arrested at the airport coming home from a bitcoin conference. How do I even have that? And why do we hold on to trauma?
Satoshi probably showed up at Bitcoin2013 in San Jose. Wouldn’t you? You started this fledgling magic internet money idea, then disappeared, and two years later…a Silicon Valley conference?
In this photo from 2012, @ErikVoorhees Roger Ver and I pitch a future bitcoin in Macau. Notice the date and how many transactions per day. This was before batching, before any other blockchain existed. You count the bitcoiners on your hands and toes.
Seems like everyone is launching a bitcoin treasury company these days while I’m sitting here vibe coding the faucet to give away free bitcoin again at http://21million.com 😁
There is no downside to holding bitcoin once you get comfortable with the risk of it going to 0 which is very low. Once you pass that, every other asset in the world has a yearly holding cost (a tax if you will). The problem is by the time you realize this bitcoin is 3x.