The #bitcoin  protocol appeared mysteriously 15 years ago and has been running ever since. With no budget, no CEO, no marketing department and no single point of failure, it has grown into the most secure computer network in history.

15 years ago one bitcoin was worth nothing. Today bitcoin is being recognized as the best form of money humanity’s ever had. If you had one bitcoin right now you could exchange it for over $25,000. But why would you? Dollars are losing purchasing power at the rate of inflation.

It takes time to understand what Bitcoin is. It takes work to grasp the technicalities and economics that have made it endure for 15 years but once you understand these principles, your world view changes and you can’t go back.