Consider just one example: it’s 2025, and 100,000 bitcoins are already obsolete. What seemed incredible to many just a few years ago has become normal and even trivial. This is a pattern we’ve seen throughout the short history of cryptocurrencies: impossible yesterday, expected or even uninteresting today.
The peculiarity of today's growing consensus on cryptocurrency is that reaching the 100k milestone, along with industry-changing innovations in 2024, was so powerful and exciting that for some it seems like there's nothing more to achieve.
Yes, 100k Bitcoin is the new normal, but what now? 300k? 500k? 1 million? Impossible! This is a sentiment I’ve often encountered in conversations with users, especially those who haven’t yet entered the crypto space.
In 2024, the industry has come a long way in a short period of time, and achieving something similar in the near future seems incredible. After all, what asset class can perform such feats so often? One million for one bitcoin? Oh, that’s just not going to happen.
When I hear something like this, I have the urge to open up a Bitcoin price chart from the past 5 years, hover over a random price spike from the past, and remember a party, panel discussion, or random conversation where someone claimed that Bitcoin would never go above that price or that anything significant above that price level was impossible.
We are still in the early stages. If you are not already part of this movement, now is the time to join. While it may be difficult to imagine the next wave of explosive growth, imagination is not always the best indicator of what is possible. What is happening in the sector shows that the momentum the industry has gained in the past year will bring growth in 2025 in areas such as mass and institutional adoption, market innovation, and real-world value creation.