It took 15 years of “failure” to build Bitcoin. You’re not behind. You’re exactly where you need to be.

1989: DigiCash. Dead by 1998.

1997: Hashcash. Not money.

1998: B-money. Never launched.

1998: Bit gold. Almost there.

Cypherpunks chased the impossible for 15 years…money no government controls, no corporation censors, no authority corrupts.

They kept building through every failure.

October 31, 2008. Satoshi didn’t invent anything new. Satoshi synthesized 15 years of “failures” into one breakthrough. The double spend problem, solved. Math. Code. Incentives.

Your setbacks aren’t stopping you. They’re teaching you.

The timeline is longer than you think. The answer is closer than it feels.

Keep building. The world needs what you’re working on.

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And also after 15 years, bitcoiners realized something unimaginable: the involution from Homo Bitcoinus to Homo Rektus...

The slow process of long-thinking. A model I learned today.

https://youtu.be/bEusrD8g-dM

https://calnewport.com/forget-chatbots-you-need-a-notebook/

2014: Fungible (Bit)Monero tackled privacy issues with Bitcoin.

Indeed. The journey is longer than you think

I feel like Satoshi did invent something new, the difficulty adjustment for example? I feel he pulled lots of things together that had already existed yes, but I feel like the difficulty adjustment was perhaps the last piece of the puzzle