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Paul Mampilly: Bitcoin Genesis Block: January 3, 2009
In hindsight, the genesis of Bitcoin USD (BTC-USD), the day that the first block was mined, is going to be remembered as a historic day in monetary history.
For the first time, we had a digital, decentralized, independent (non-sovereign) global currency. The benefits of these things will rise as history unfolds because I believe that BTC will be the world’s global digital currency.
BTC 🪙 Reaches $1: February 9, 2011 (768 Days From Genesis)
BTC took over two years to really register in human consciousness. Personally, I can tell you that I first came across BTC by reading an article about it in the October 11, 2011 edition of the New Yorker magazine.
I’m an early adopter and a speculator by instinct and nature. I immediately searched for ways to buy this new, unusual, and unique thing described in the article.
Sadly, BTC was horrendously difficult to buy in 2011. My plan was to put $1,000 into it.
If memory serves me right, BTC was trading around $7. If I’d followed through, I’d have approximately 143 BTC — or about $4 million.
However, every website that offered to sell it looked shady and untrustworthy. Putting my banking and debit card details into these sites was too scary.
And that’s the story of how I missed buying BTC near the beginning.
BTC 🪙 Reaches $10: November 27, 2012 (658 Days From $1)
BTC continued to gain fans, followers, and believers as it steadily rose in price. Meanwhile, the world of fiat currencies was experiencing wild convulsions.
In Europe, the Euro looked ready to collapse as the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) countries looked incapable of staying in the Eurozone.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Federal Reserve was manipulating interest rates and asset markets to keep the economy from collapsing.
Bottom line, more people were beginning to see why a currency like BTC was necessary.
BTC 🪙 Reaches $100: March 31, 2013 (115 Days From $10)
By 2013, BTC had gained a large worldwide following. Based on its finite supply of 21 million coins, its market cap had reached $2.1 billion.
While this market capitalization is puny compared to the big fiat (paper money) based markets, it was still a big moment. And it gave confidence to folks who had bought into BTC early that they were onto something with real potential.
BTC Reaches $1,000: November 27, 2013 (252 Days From $100)
By 2013, HODL (hold on for dear life) became a thing because of the wild volatility in BTC’s price. The reason for HODLing is clear: HODLers have made some of the greatest gains in history.
Folks who had HODLed had turned $100 or $1,000 into hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars. BTC now had a notional market capitalization based on 21 million coins of over $20 billion!
BTC 🪙 Reaches $10,000: November 28, 2017 (1,463 Days From $100)
In my opinion, 2017 was BTC’s true coming-out moment. In 2017, BTC’s gains were so large that it became the most talked-about investment.
Everyone wished they’d bought BTC earlier to experience the extraordinary and astonishing gains that early adopters had experienced.
BTC now had a market capitalization based on 21 million coins of a mind-blowing $210 billion. It had passed the $100 billion threshold for the first time.
Since then, BTC peaked at nearly $20,000 in 2017 and nearly $70,000 in 2021. Today, it sits at about $28,000.
It's been 2,139 days since BTC added a zero (or exponent) to its price.
Many people have given up on BTC, thinking its time has passed. I don’t agree.
I believe that the underlying reasoning for BTC is still valid.
The world’s fiat (paper) currencies are fundamentally flawed. Governments and their central banks design fiat currencies to lose money over time.
The Dollar 💵 Is the Best of a Set of Terrible Choices
The U.S. dollar is the best of the fiat currencies, with an official policy to only lose 2% of its value per year. The rest of the world’s currencies are far worse, as seen in the chart below:
In my opinion, BTC will inevitably jump by one exponent to $100,000 by mid-2024. And then, it’s equally inevitable that BTC will surge to $1 million in 2025.
Why?
Because the U.S. dollar — the best fiat (paper) currency — has been oversupplied.
However, because we’ve been under a spell of fear since the 2008 financial crisis and the troubles that followed, we’ve been desperately holding on to our dollars like they’re something scarce.
The Dollar: Devalued by 50% in 10 Years
However, the actions of the Federal Reserve to issue even more dollars, along with the U.S. government’s enormous spending, have undone our fears.
Americans are now spending all the money that’s been issued. That’s a game-changer for BTC.
$100,000 (2,139 Days & Counting) So Far
It’s been 2,139 days since BTC added an exponent to its price. In my view, BTC is overdue for a massive surge soon.
The reason for that is everything I laid out above — and that BTC’s halving is set to unfold in April 2024. In simple terms, BTC’s halving cuts new supply down by half.
This halving is set to shrink the new supply to 3.125 coins from 6.25 coins.
Combine massive devaluation with a shrinking BTC supply, and you get a BTC surge with the potential to take it to $100,000 and then to $1,000,000.
Don’t Miss the Next Surge ⚡
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#GBC100: Monday, October 9, 2023
The #GBC100 is down 1.13% today.
With markets shifting in our direction, there isn’t anything new to write about. So, just to let you know, we won’t always be commenting on the performance of the #GBC100 daily.
However, we’ll be updating the performance, and we want to remind folks that our goal is to turn the #GBC100 into an ETF that offers a one-stock way to invest the ATG way — in innovation and growth.
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