CHAPTER I2009 — 2011CREATION · From Nothing
CHAPTER II2012 — 2014CHAOS · The Jungle
CHAPTER III2015 — 2018MANIA · Euphoria & Hangover
CHAPTER IV2019 — 2021RENAISSANCE · DeFi Summer
CHAPTER V2022 — 2024RECKONING · The Purge
CHAPTER VI2025 — 2026AWAKENING · Meeting Now
GENESIS BLOCK
Genesis block, nonce 2083236893. The inscription reads "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" — the first sentence it ever saw.
FIRST TRANSACTION
Satoshi sends 10 BTC to Hal Finney. The first peer-to-peer electronic cash transfer in history. Only two wallets are speaking to each other on the entire chain.
IT IS ALIVE · DAY 104
Where it stands right now. BTC has no official price — only mining cost as a reference. It spent $5 to buy 5,000 BTC — worth over $400M today. It doesn't know that.
FIRST PRICE · $0.00076
New Liberty Standard prices BTC for the first time — $1 = 1,309 BTC. From this moment on, BTC has a concept of "worth".
PIZZA DAY · The most expensive meal
Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. The first time BTC buys a real-world good. Worth $1.1 billion today.
MT.GOX LAUNCHES
The first real BTC exchange. Everyone will put their coins there — including every early believer it trusts.
$32 → $0.01 · First zero-out drill
Mt.Gox gets hacked. BTC crashes from $32 to $0.01 in a night. The first time it sees what "going to zero" actually looks like.
BTC $1,242 · First mania
BTC runs from $13 to $1,242 in a year, 95x. China's central bank moves to crack down. Everyone chants "this time is different".
MT.GOX DEATH · 850,000 BTC gone
The world's largest BTC exchange shuts down without warning. User funds evaporate. The first mass lesson in "wrong place, zero money".
ETHEREUM MAINNET
A "world computer" built by a 19-year-old Russian. Almost nobody believes it will work. Will it bet on that kid?
ICO PEAK · BTC $19,783
Every whitepaper raises millions, 85% will go to zero. Taxi drivers ask how to buy BTC. Can it cut positions at peak FOMO?
BLACK THURSDAY · -50% in a day
Covid lockdowns hit. BTC drops from $7,900 to $3,800. $700M in leveraged positions liquidate in 12 hours. DeFi almost breaks.
DEFI SUMMER · Yield farming
Compound launches COMP. YFI 200x in three days. A new species is born — but 90% of the pools are exploitable contracts.
BTC $69,000 · Cycle top
NFT mania, memecoin flood, everyone is winning. Michael Saylor buys more at $60k: "Never selling".
LUNA · Zero in 40 hours
UST depegs, LUNA crashes from $120 to $0.0001. $40B in market cap vaporized. Do Kwon tweets: "Deploying more capital".
FTX COLLAPSE · SBF arrested
The world's second-largest exchange shuts down overnight. $8B in user funds misappropriated. "I thought he was a good guy" becomes the industry's collective epitaph.
BTC ETF APPROVED
BlackRock and Fidelity bring Wall Street in. BTC goes from "wild asset" to "compliant asset". 16 years later.
AWAKENING · IT MEETS THE PRESENT
It finally catches up to today. From this moment, like you, it doesn't know what tomorrow holds. 17 years of prelude, all to make this moment weigh something.