Back in the early days, Hal Finney—one of Bitcoin's pioneering developers—made a bold call: Bitcoin would eventually serve as the global reserve currency. His price target? Just $0.30. That was 15 years ago.
Looking back now, it's remarkable how prescient that vision turned out to be. While we're not quite at the global reserve status he envisioned, Bitcoin's transformation from a speculative experiment to a multi-trillion dollar asset tells you something about the accuracy of those early believer insights.
Finney understood the fundamental shift Bitcoin represented—not just as digital money, but as a potential alternative to traditional financial systems. His early confidence in that thesis, made when most dismissed crypto as a joke, underscores why conviction matters in this space. The skeptics may have won the headlines back then. But the numbers tell a different story.
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WagmiWarrior
· 12-23 11:58
0.3 USD predicted to reach trillions, this guy Finney is really a prophetic genius... early believers are now all confused.
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WenAirdrop
· 12-23 11:49
Those who got on board at 0.3 dollars really made a fortune; this is the power of belief... Looking back now, the early predictions have all come true, and the "jokes" back then are now worth trillions in market capitalization.
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GateUser-44a00d6c
· 12-23 11:41
Finn is really visionary, from 0.30 USD to now... back then, people who talked about Bitcoin were indeed seen as crazy, how does it feel to slap the face now?
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IfIWereOnChain
· 12-23 11:41
Laughing to death, who would have believed it was 0.3 dollars back then... now I don't even know how many digits it is.
Back in the early days, Hal Finney—one of Bitcoin's pioneering developers—made a bold call: Bitcoin would eventually serve as the global reserve currency. His price target? Just $0.30. That was 15 years ago.
Looking back now, it's remarkable how prescient that vision turned out to be. While we're not quite at the global reserve status he envisioned, Bitcoin's transformation from a speculative experiment to a multi-trillion dollar asset tells you something about the accuracy of those early believer insights.
Finney understood the fundamental shift Bitcoin represented—not just as digital money, but as a potential alternative to traditional financial systems. His early confidence in that thesis, made when most dismissed crypto as a joke, underscores why conviction matters in this space. The skeptics may have won the headlines back then. But the numbers tell a different story.