These charts would have definitely given some goosebumps to many of bitcoin users all over the world. We do know how bitcoin is right now, the global phenomenon which might threaten Fiat money in future and almost all the citizens from various countries would just use one currency to transact worldwide without the need to trust/wait for the banks to process their transactions etc. Abraham Lincoln once said the democracy is all about
that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom[8]—
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
But does the current system of democracy work like this? Many of the people who are still not a user/never known of bitcoin are being treated as the slaves of the government officials who run a centralized form of govenement!
Once when I was reading the book "
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper" I got a strange thought how the bitcoin would have been if Hal didn't respond to the mails of satoshi nor he didn't mine those ~4000 coins in a day? We do know that someone if not Hal would have emerged and would have replied to the mail and would have mined the coins initially. The bitcoin we use today and the bitcoin which challenges today's governmental organizations was built by these early cryptographers and satoshi alone wouldn't have made this happen.
Here is a gist from the book which made what bitcoin is today :
Satoshi sent Hal a new version of the program, with some of the old material restored, and thanked Hal for his help. When it, too, crashed, Hal kept at it. He finally got it running using a program that operated outside Microsoft Windows. Once it was up, he clicked on the most exciting-sounding function in the drop-down menu: “Generate Coins.” When he did this, the processor in his computer audibly clicked into gear at a high clip.
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When Hal returned to his computer in the evening, heimmediately saw that it had made him 50 Bitcoins, now recorded next to one of his Bitcoin addresses and also recorded on the public ledger that kept track of all Bitcoins. These, the seventy-eighth block of coins generated, were among the first 4,000 Bitcoins to make it into the real world. At the time they were worth exactly nothing, but that didn’t dampen Hal’s enthusiasm.
Apart from the price actions (pump and dump) I admire the technology behind the bitcoin and how it poses a major threat for the global currencies and governments as a whole! I would like to bow down before the early contributors (not just satoshi) since without them bitcoin would have become obsolete!