There’s something amazing, almost mystical about watching the entire blockchain download to your node for the first time. You’re witnessing the entire history of the past 15 years of #bitcoin appear right in front of you in order.

There’s Satoshi, just mining alone. Then Hal Finney shows up and the first peer-to-peer payment takes place. Later, it’s Lazslo and his pizzas. Then there’s Satoshi Dice, the Silk Road, Wikileaks, and Cyprus.

You can find MtGox, the Blocksize War, your first bitcoin transaction, the first time you went to cold storage, all hashed in sequence together. Even all those shitty ordinals. They’re there forever.

It’s fucking magic. 🎩🪄✨