This is the log scale of the entire crypto market.
Treat your Bitcoin as if it is at a million already because you will look back and wish you did.
While there will be multiple halvings and multiple market cycles if you stay committed, stay focused, and patient you will be rewarded. If you're just trying to get rich you will lose. We are here to serve others and if you only think of yourself and stay selfish your hard earned money will go to those that serve others as Bitcoin will change the way the world works.
Bitcoin will be manipulated.
Bitcoin will be banned.
Bitcoin will be regulated.
But in the end of Bitcoin will replace fiat money as a one world currency and store of wealth and it will upend the current financial system.
In the bible it speaks of a single currency in which all people will use and barter with. Bitcoin is that prophecy fulfilled but it's still in its infancy.
Defi, on/off ramps, ease of use, safety, security, etc. These are all indications of it's fast and continued evolution. Yet it's still only decade old and will last for hundreds of years, much longer than any of us will be alive.
Back in 2011 when I purchased my first Bitcoin it was very difficult. I had to send an email to make a purchase, they sent me a bank account routing and account number I had to deposit fiat into, and in turn sent me my bitcoin. It took a few days to clear and finally I had the bitcoin in my wallet. There were no hardware wallets, no metamask, nothing to really secure your crypto. Mt. Gox wiped out anyone that was really trading back then. It was the wild west and I was primarily using crypto to purchase drugs through 2011-2013 - props to Ross, he was and still is a visionary and maybe someday he will have the opportunity to live free. But even back then I knew Bitcoin was going to change the world. When Coinbase came along I started buying small amounts of BTC and ETH and holding knowing that it was more risky to hold fiat than it was to hold Bitcoin. Bitcoin truly changed my life as it has many early adopters.
The central backs are never going to stop printing money. 2008 was just the beginning and now we are in hyperdrive with the printing, and it will not slow down. It has to speed up to keep the system from failing. Money is truly our life's energy stored and when those in power manipulate it we are all being stolen from. And so finally, there is something we can control without the fear of it being taken away, devalued, or stolen. We are in complete control of our life's energy and it will change the world and give power to the people that choose to take it. In early 2018 I began putting all my business income into crypto, I knew the banks were in control of my money and I grew frustrated with their power. Intuitively, I couldn't keep allowing the system to control me. As a non-conformist i fought back through Bitcoin and in doing that have increased my wealth by the millions when measured in fiat.
I will never sell a single Bitcoin and I encourage you never to sell also. If you need fiat just borrow against it with Defi. You hold to keys to your life and giving it away is the choice we all have to make. When Bitcoin reaches it's full potential it will change the world as it is already starting to do. Even a year ago it seemed like a small possibility to most but as everyone has seen, this current system we are all forced to live is gong to to steal from you. You now hold the power and every time you change fiat to BTC you take a stand against the powers above you. One day, one month, one year at a time. Whatever you do don't give your power away. And at the end of your life you can look back and know you were a good steward with what you were given. Your family, your kids, and your legacy will be prosperous. Stay strong, stay vigilant, and never ever give up.
In our lifetime the crypto market is going to 30 trillion and probably much higher than that. Everything will be measured in Bitcoin, not the US dollar or any kind of fiat denomination. Come back in 10 years and this prophecy will be fulfilled. God Speed!