🧵 The Blockchain Epic: From Pizza to Prison to $100K BTC

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2008: A mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto sparks a revolution by publishing the Bitcoin whitepaper an idea for money without middlemen. Trust the code, not the banks.

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2009: The first BTC transaction Satoshi to Hal Finney. Digital gold begins to move.
2010: Two pizzas bought for 10,000 BTC. Today, that’s a $600M meal. 🍕

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2011: Bitcoin hits $1. Now it’s dollar parity. Activists like Wikileaks start accepting BTC. A currency once mocked is being taken seriously.

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2013: BTC hits $100 and a $1B market cap. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old named Vitalik Buterin dreams bigger what if blockchains could run code, not just money?

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2014–2015: NFTs are born. NASDAQ and 100K+ merchants embrace BTC. Blockchain enters Wall Street’s radar.

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2016–2018: IBM builds on blockchain. BTC hits $1,000. Crypto market hits $150B. Even China and big banks start circling the tech.

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2020: BTC nearly touches $30K. PayPal joins the game. The Bahamas launches the first CBDC. Crypto feels inevitable.

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2021: Bitcoin breaks $1T. Web3 vision surges. Crypto becomes cool, VC money floods in. Everyone's in and then...

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2022: Inflation + rate hikes + overhype = crash. $2 trillion wiped. FTX collapses. Trust? Gone. Regulators pounce.

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2023: Crypto's dark side erupts. Do Kwon, Justin Sun, and Sam Bankman-Fried face justice. SBF gets 25 years. Crypto’s wild west ends.

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2024: But just when it seems over... BTC hits $100,000. A new chapter begins harder, smarter, maybe cleaner.

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From pizza to prison to $100K. Blockchain's story isn't just tech it's human. Greed, vision, failure, reinvention.

The next chapter? Still unwritten. 📖💥