Bitcoin's 16th anniversary

BTC continued to rebound overnight, temporarily staying in the 96-97k range.

Today is January 3, 2025, exactly 16 years after the date engraved in the Bitcoin Genesis Block created by Satoshi Nakamoto, January 3, 2009.

Although Satoshi Nakamoto has long gone, BTC has never stopped moving forward.

BTC has not changed. BTC has been changing.

What remains unchanged is its "protocol". What changes is its code.

Today, in the Bitcoin Core project that inherited from Satoshi Nakamoto's original code base, less than 0.06% (0.6%) of the code is written by Satoshi Nakamoto. The other 99.94% of the code comes from the selfless contributions of developers around the world.

"Don't miss me all the time, and don't expect me to come back. After I leave, you will be me."

Every year, Bitcoin Core has a large number of code updates. Among them, about 276,000 lines of code were updated in 2024 alone.

These codes are all from the contributions of contributors from all over the world.

Everyone is Satoshi Nakamoto.

BTC is like water. Softest and strongest. The body is softest, but the spirit is strong. Soft but can continue to evolve, full of vitality. Strong but can be mighty and unyielding, and can remain unchanged even under the pressure of Mount Tai.

The code is the body of BTC, and the protocol is its soul.

According to research, the human body replaces 76% of its atoms every 16 days, 98% of its atoms every year, and 100% of its atoms every 5 years. But you are still the same you.

99.94% of BTC code has been rewritten, but BTC is still the same BTC.

The Ship of Theseus.

The dialectical unity of change and invariance.

The Book of Changes talks about the three principles of change: simplicity, change, and invariance.

BTC is simple: sum(50/2^n)*210,000 = 21 million.

BTC continues to evolve: more than 99.94% of the code has been rewritten.

BTC has never changed: 1 BTC = 1 BTC.

Completely in line with the principles of Yi.

In line with the way of heaven.

Use this as a mirror, look at yourself, and reflect on whether we often violate the principles of Yi in our work and life?

Don't know that Yi is a simple principle. Can't do subtraction, only addition. Things are getting more and more complicated, the mind is in a mess, and the environment is a mess. There are blockages everywhere, and everything is not handled smoothly. Work is not getting easier the more you do it, but getting more tired the more you do it. This is the loss of simplicity.

Not knowing that Yi is the principle of change. Holding on to the old and not thinking about change. Think of thousands of ways at night, and go back to the original way in the morning. Although I have lost my enthusiasm for work, I still refuse to change for various reasons and excuses. It is not that I have not thought about changing when I am not satisfied, but in action, I pick up my phone to watch a few short videos, fall asleep when I am tired, and continue everything as usual when I wake up. No motivation, no courage, no plan, no action. This is the loss of the principle of change.

Not knowing that Yi is the principle of change. I don’t know how to stick to my original intention and long-termism; I don’t know how to hold the bottom warehouse and make long-term layout. When the impetuous repeated jumps fill the market, steadfastness becomes a rare and unique advantage. Therefore, the words "Li Zhen", "Li Jian Zhen" and "Li Yong Zhen" frequently appear in the hexagrams of the Book of Changes, which tells us that it is most beneficial to stick to our original intention and stick to long-termism! Chasing hot spots every day, switching tracks from time to time, and often cutting losses and changing positions will inevitably lead to more losses and less wins, more losses and less profits. Why? The Yijing Tun Gua·Liu San Yao Ci has already warned, "Even if the deer is safe, it will enter the forest. The gentleman is better off giving up and going to the forest." If you don't have the diamond drill to do the porcelain work, this is the loss of the principle of change.

The success of investment is not to make money, but to cultivate oneself.

Only when you know what level of wealth you deserve, you can earn what level of wealth.

In this regard, every BTC holder can look up to the spiritual monument of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Satoshi Nakamoto is suspected of mining 1.1 million BTC in the early years, and it has never moved for 16 years. For the time being, according to the calculation of 100,000 US dollars per BTC, this is about a huge fortune equivalent to 110 billion US dollars.

It is worthwhile to estimate whether the cognitive level and ideological realm reflected by Satoshi Nakamoto's words, deeds and contributions are worthy of the wealth of 110 billion US dollars?

Worth it, or even more. Then, BTC worth 100,000 US dollars is not expensive. Otherwise, it is expensive.

Jiaolian thinks that it may be said to be much more. In a horizontal comparison, the world's richest people who have wealth exceeding this level are still inferior to Satoshi Nakamoto.

Therefore, if BTC doubles again to 200,000 US dollars. Then Satoshi Nakamoto will have the possibility of being on par with the world's richest man with a wealth of about 220 billion US dollars.

And this is a double championship moment. BTC worth 200,000 US dollars will also compete with Apple, the world's largest company by market value.

Think about it again, is Satoshi Nakamoto worthy of being the world's richest man? Is BTC worthy of being the number one US stock by market value?

If they are worthy, then it is not an unattainable dream, but a path we are on.

Be bolder, imagine BTC reaching 1 million US dollars?

Facing an exponentially accelerating future, perhaps the only thing that limits us is our poor imagination?

16 years after the creation of the world, the good show has just begun.