Bitcoin turns 17 today 🎂 on Jan 3, 2009, Genesis Block was mined with a message about bank bailouts that context matters bitcoin wasn’t created as a product or an investment, it was created as an alternative to system that required constant intervention seventeen years later, rules are still same supply capped at 21 million issuance enforced by code no central issuer, policy meetings, emergency changes the network has simply kept running what’s changed is who uses it bitcoin is now held by individuals, institutions, public companies, and even sovereign entities its integrated into regulated products like spot ETFs and recognized globally as a neutral monetary asset at this point, it like an experiment and more like infrastructure quiet, resilient, and opt-in you don’t have to believe in it but it’s hard to ignore what it’s proven over 17 years(Justin Wu)