It's 2024. Donald Trump just won the election again, bitcoin hit a new all-time high, inflation is higher than the DeLorean's flux capacitor, and everyone is wondering, “What's next?” As we all struggle with the wild pace of the story, there is a flash in the sky, a crackle of lightning, and who should appear but Doc Brown himself. He jumps out of the DeLorean, his eyes and hair even wilder, and says, “Forget sports almanacs, Marty! We're going back, not to 1985, but to 2009, before anyone even knew what a bitcoin was!
Yes, we would all love to jump into that time machine and go back to January 3, 2009, the day the bitcoin genesis block was mined. Get it cheap, hoard our wallets, and maybe even stash some under the couch cushions. But here's the kicker: bitcoin doesn't work that way. Your greatest strength? “Everyone gets the price they deserve.” Nobody gets a free ride and bitcoin doesn't have a rewind button, just a path forward.
Doc Brown was right when he said, “Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! The path bitcoin follows is not one of shortcuts or regrets. It is a one-way trip into the future, with a price that continues to advance. It doesn't matter if we wish we started with $1 or $100: it's relentless, and that's the point.
Today, people freeze at the current price, tormented by unitary bias, haunted by a “missed opportunity” that only exists in retrospect. But bitcoin's value does not lie in a magical price from the past; It resides in the present, in its constant march towards the future. And standing on the sidelines, waiting for an impossible drop or trying to recapture 2009 prices, is like being Biff: always scheming, always missing the point.
If Marty learned anything, it's that you can't sit back and expect things to turn out well. Biff, always clueless and disconnected, is the perfect example of what happens when you lose the future staring you in the face. Imagine Biff in 2009: he would mock bitcoin, laugh about it, and then spend decades regretting every satoshi lost. Don't be a Biff. Don't let hindsight or wishful thinking stop you from joining the future.
We all wish we could have gotten bitcoin for the price of a coffee, but that DeLorean opportunity no longer exists. Doc Brown would tell us the same thing he told Marty: “The future is what you make of it, so make it good.”
So, the next time you look at the price of bitcoin today, with your heart racing like you're about to hit 88 mph, remember: there's no going back to 2009. There's only the next block, the next satoshi, and the next step. forward. Where bitcoin is going, we don't need to travel in time, we just need the courage to act. And as Doc would say, When it comes to bitcoin, where we are going, we need no regrets.
This article is a Carry. The opinions expressed are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of btc Inc or bitcoin Magazine.
