First, let's watch this short video.
- Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (1995) | Letterman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-YpQj88ew)
In the interview, Bill Gates was trolled about Internet capacity to handle a podcast, just a podcast, not a video, movies or livestream like we have nowadays.
In the first six years of the WWW (1990-1996), less than 1% of the world used the internet.
The internet’s adoption curve was marked by a really slow beginning when it was only interesting to tech experts. This is similar to the early days of Bitcoin. We can observe the growth of Bitcoin through its value as the number of holders increases the currency’s worth. Sixteen months after Bitcoin was created, its value was still at only $0.004.
(World Bank, Wells Fargo)
(https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yODI3MTIyMy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTczMTQ2NzIzOX0.nhTA3lXtMQ1zFqJPhJ8wF7JqlOWxmzWVTC3P2iE0URc/img.jpg?width=1200&height=800&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0[/url]) (https://www.upworthy.com/1990s-predictions-about-the-internet)
Born in doubt, the Internet changed the world entirely and I see some similaries and potentiallities of the Internet and Bitcoin. Now, let's read some more resources
- Can Crypto Match the Internet and Hit 5B Users? (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/07/12/can-crypto-match-the-internet-and-hit-5b-users/)
- Internet vs Crypto Adoption: How Do Their Adoption Curves Compare? (https://www.banklesstimes.com/internet-vs-crypto-adoption/)
- Internet vs. crypto adoption chart predicts 1 billion users by 2027 (https://cryptoslate.com/internet-vs-crypto-adoption-chart-predicts-1-billion-users-by-2027/)
- You're still early: An objective look at Bitcoin adoption (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/an-objective-look-at-bitcoin-adoption)
Bitcoin has potential to make bigger impacts than the Internet.
Coming days will be very chaotic with SEC. and Bitcoin Spot ETFs but if you have bitcoins, spend time to read above and hold your bitcoin. Best has yet come, even without Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals, best has yet come, I repeat!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtKQ4P1U4AE8vnD?format=jpg&name=small) (https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1356310219215699968)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGwc8baVQAI4yJ5?format=jpg&name=small) (https://twitter.com/TheCryptoLark/status/1471730881337323522)
Notes:
- It was posted first in that topic, on Bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5480201.0)
- I leave the source link to avoid plagiarism accusation.
- I excluded minor things from an original thread if necessary.
No one nows the future and everyone tries to predict it on the basis of knowledge or agendas they have, some do have some idea that the internet will be adopted worldwide but never shared due to specific agendas, and even AI-integrated chat bots, survelance systems, management systems are in use of big companies, governmental authorities even way before it came in from to public.
No one can predict future but we are living and have to speculate what will happen next.
Very fortunately that we are not in a year like 2009 when Genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto. Time flies fast and we already have 15 years of Bitcoin existence to assess its technology, blockchain, use cases, utility and its survival through some bear markets and more special, some black swan events.
Every thing is being manipulated and BTC is also but to not that extent due to its of course decentralization factor. Overall, I will say, BTC really have enough potential to grow even if the ETFs will be rejected, but hey only the short term profit takers will be going to make wrong decisions, the one with long term plans are not.
If it is saying about market, Bitcoin market is similar to other markets, there are always existence of market manipulation. As an investor, we must have very long term view, and ignore short term volatility, market manipulations and look at more important fundamentals which make up value.
Price can be manipulated but value can not be manipulated. The challenge is how to assess value of an asset.
With Bitcoin, I strongly recommend to look at this one
- Realized Price (https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/realized-price/)
(https://i.ibb.co/KF1PQ65/Realize-Price.png) (https://ibb.co/9sMDfnp)