One Twitter user thought Bitcoin had taken off without them in 2010, while another figured BTC wouldn't go anywhere.
Bitcoin came to life in 2009.
More than a decade later, the present day looks back on an enormous
amount of development that has built a surrounding industry, complete
with other blockchains, assets and solutions. Some folks knew about
Bitcoin (BTC)
in its early years, while others have jumped on the train in varying
droves since then. Looking back through Twitter’s history reveals a few
tweets that were far ahead of their time.
In 2010, one Twitter user saw
Bitcoin’s potential, yet expressed skepticism regarding its future.
Little did they know how common the term Bitcoin would become, surfacing
as the topic of numerous mainstream news interviews and reporting.
Someone else on Twitter thought
they were behind the game, back in 2010! The tweet shows a post date of
Dec. 1, 2010. Bitcoin’s daily price candle for that day reached a price
high of around $0.23 per BTC, according to TradingView’s BraveNewCoin BTC Liquid Index. For reference, Bitcoin reached levels above $60,000 per coin in April 2021.
Another Twitter user cashed
in their Christmas present haul in 2011 for the digital asset. If they
held BTC until 2021, their decision likely paid notable percentage
returns, based on price action since.
Lastly for this batch of history is a 2009 Twitter post from the now-deceased Hal Finney, who was involved in Bitcoin from the beginning. This retro tweet came on Jan. 21, 2009, shortly after Bitcoin’s Genesis block launched on Jan. 3, 2009. Since then, some assets, such as Monero (XMR), have come into existence, touting greater privacy.
