2/ The origin of the HODL meme.

"HODL" doesn& #39;t actually stand for "Hold on for Dear Life"
3/ "I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen"

The price of bitcoin was $16.
4/ Satoshi Nakamoto, "If you don& #39;t believe me or don& #39;t get it, I don& #39;t have time to try to convince you, sorry"
5/ Possibly the first instance of someone EVER trying to buy or sell something for bitcoin.
6/ The world& #39;s first pseudonymous poker tournament took place eleven years ago.

The prize was 1,000 bitcoin.

Today, that& #39;s a $50 million prize pool.
7/ Someone tried to sell their 10,000 bitcoins for $50 back in 2010. The highest bid was only $20.

Today, those coins are now worth half a billion dollars.
8/ Satoshi Nakamoto wrote this post and then disappeared a few days later.
9/ They thought they missed the bus because they only owned 600 bitcoin.
10/ "As a thought experiment...

Imagine there was a base metal as scare as gold but...can be transported over a communications channel"
11/ Satoshi Nakamoto talking about the energy consumption of Bitcoin and concluded:

"𝘕𝘰𝘵 having Bitcoin would be the net waste."
12/ This user tried to buy a Platypus for 1,500 bitcoin in 2012. Today, that& #39;s over $86 million.
13/ Some insightful geeks that understood bitcoin when it was $0.44 better than some do today at $60,000.
14/ Hal Finney posted this when the price of bitcoin was only $11.
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