Bitcoin became famous before it became mature.
In my new essay, I explain why I believe we are still early, why its monetization is far from finished, and why its real competitive field is far bigger than most people think.
Everyone knows what happens if you miss Bitcoin’s ten best days. Almost nobody asks what happens if you miss the ten worst.
I ran both sides of the experiment. The answer changes the lesson.
Bitcoin gave buyers seven days this cycle.
If you were waiting for confirmation, you spent them.
I went back through every measurable Bitcoin cycle to see what happened to the people who bought when almost nobody wanted to.
The record is extraordinary.
What if the difficulty isn't the evidence of failure—
What if it's the evidence of how early we still are?
Every civilization-changing technology began by asking too much of its first believers.
I think Bitcoin is no different.
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What if the market hasn't decided anything at all?
Every investor has heard the sentence:
"The market has decided."
Here's why that sentence is one of the biggest misconceptions in finance.
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I followed every accepted rule of Bitcoin self-custody.
I still lost a material amount of Bitcoin.
The protocol didn't fail. Self-custody didn't fail.
There is one layer of trust you cannot audit.