BITCOIN INDEPENDENCE DAY — NAKALIMUTAN NA NGA BA?
By Taglish Tea
August 1st. Sa ibang bansa, wala lang. Pero sa Bitcoin world, this day marks something powerful — something revolutionary — something… most people today don't even remember.
2017. It was the year Bitcoin almost lost its soul.
Big corporations — the giants of crypto — wanted to force their will on the network. They held SegWit hostage. They said: “We’ll only support your upgrade if we get our way too. Give us bigger blocks, more control.”
But the community — mga OGs, devs, traders, even small businesses — said: “No.”
So what happened? BOOM
A User Activated Soft Fork (UASF). Grassroots rebellion in code form. No guns, no riots — just software and conviction. The community ran a version of Bitcoin that would activate SegWit with or without the permission of the big boys.
And guess what? The users won. August 1, 2017 became Bitcoin’s Independence Day. A day when the people, not the powerful, decided Bitcoin’s future.
But today… tahimik. No tweets. No threads. No celebrations. Parang wala lang.
Bakit? Nakalimutan na ba natin?
Bitcoin grew. Became mainstream. Nasa ETF na. Corporate hands are back. And yes, maybe some of us now trust the same institutions that tried to hijack it back then.
But here's the real tea:
Bitcoin is strongest when it's peer-to-peer.
When regular people — not CEOs or hedge funds — hold the keys, run the nodes, and understand the mission.
So today, even if no one else does, we remember.
Happy Bitcoin Independence Day.
And if you’re just learning about it now?
Good. Kasi history forgotten is power surrendered.
