This is 2024. Donald Trump has won re-election, Bitcoin has hit a new all-time high, inflation is running hotter than the flux capacitor of a DeLorean, and everyone is wondering, “What’s next?” As we all struggle with the rapid pace of history, there’s a flash in the sky, a crack of lightning, and who should appear other than Doc Brown himself. He gets out of the DeLorean, eyes wild and hair wild, and says, “Forget the sports almanac, Marty! We’re going back — not to 1985, but to 2009, before anyone knew what a bitcoin was.” !”
Yes, we would all love to jump into that time machine and go back to January 3, 2009 – the day Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined. Get it cheap, stock up our wallets, and maybe even stash some under the couch cushions. But here’s the problem: Bitcoin doesn’t work that way. Its greatest strength? “Everyone gets the price they deserve.” Nobody gets a free ride, and there is no rewind button in Bitcoin – there is only a way forward.
Doc Brown was on to something when he said, “Streets? Where are we going, we don’t need roads!” The path that Bitcoin creates is not one of shortcuts or regrets. It’s a one-way trip into the future, with prices that keep rising. It doesn’t matter whether we want to start with $1 or $100 – it’s constant, and that’s the point.
Today, people are stuck on the current price, suffering from unit bias, suffering from a “missed opportunity” that only exists later. But Bitcoin’s value doesn’t lie in some magical price point of the past; It lies in the present – in its steady march towards the future. And standing on the sidelines, waiting for some impossible drop or trying to call 2009 prices, is like being a biff: always planning, always missing the point.
If Marty has learned anything, it’s that you can’t stand on the fence and hope things work out. Biff, forever clueless and out of touch, is the perfect example of what happens when you miss the future staring right in front of you. Imagine Biff in 2009 – he would be mocking Bitcoin, laughing at it, and then spending decades regretting every lost Satoshi. Don’t be a biff. Don’t let shortsightedness or wishful thinking keep you from getting involved in the future.
We all wish we could get our hands on Bitcoin for the price of coffee, but that DeLorean opportunity is long gone. Doc Brown tells us what he told Marty: “The future is what you make it, so make it a good one.”
So, the next time you’re looking at today’s price of Bitcoin, heart beating fast as if you’re about to reach 88 miles per hour, remember: there’s no going back to 2009. There’s just the next block, the next Satoshi, and the next step forward. Where Bitcoin is Going We don’t need time travel – we just need the courage to act. And as the doctor would say, When it comes to where Bitcoin is going, we don’t need any regrets.
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