Unfortunately, there is no time machine to go back to the day Bitcoin was first invented.

The person referenced by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, Adam Back, confirmed the most shocking Bitcoin prediction ever — long before the first Bitcoin transaction took place in 2009, Hal Finney predicted that Bitcoin's total market cap would reach $200 trillion. Adam Back, the legendary inventor of the core technology for Bitcoin mining, Hashcash, believes this is bound to come true. He saw something that others overlooked: Bitcoin's true competitor is not other cryptocurrencies, but the entire global value storage market. Back calculated that Bitcoin's market cap is about 9 times smaller than gold, and the larger market includes the monetary premium of assets such as real estate, stocks, and bonds, which is now close to $100 trillion; in contrast, Finney's prediction seems conservative. Back pointed out that although institutions like BlackRock have suggested allocating 2% of their portfolios to Bitcoin, the current proportion of institutional funds remains very low, and the flood of capital has yet to truly arrive. The real turning point will occur when Bitcoin absorbs the investment premium of assets like real estate. He further explained why governments cannot stop this trend: when there are hundreds of millions of users and millions of nodes who believe that holding hard currency is an inherent right, you ultimately cannot stop them, as the Silk Road incident proved; governments can seize servers but cannot touch the Bitcoin network itself. As for the threat of quantum computing, Back dismissively stated that its current level can only factor simple numbers like 21. He revealed the secret of Bitcoin halving: people will learn to hold rather than trade frequently, leading to fewer coins circulating in the market. When this artificial scarcity meets growing demand, we are witnessing the largest transfer of wealth in human history from a government-controlled fiat system to a decentralized network that no institution can manipulate. Back's prediction is very clear: "If institutions continue to increase their positions and retail interest remains, Bitcoin has every possibility of reaching that scale." The people Satoshi Nakamoto trusted validated Finney's insights from 15 years ago, in an era without exchanges, institutional investment, or anyone believing it would happen; their voices shaped the history of Bitcoin. #加密市场回调