Crypto Moments

Today marks the next chapter for CryptoMoments! Our coffee table book sales go live today & will roll out in stores across the US over the coming weeks and months. The book features in-depth accounts of each moment, shedding light on the people and adding color to the often shadowed truths behind the scenes. As well as all the exceptional artworks done by our team of artists bringing their unique views and styles of those moments to life. You can check out and purchase the book @ cryptomoments.com/book We currently only have paypal payment options but will be rolling out more payment options and regions soon. Shout out to our writer @fozziewrites_ & our artists: @TheBakaArts @peekcell @pixelord @phuncal @rolu_art

@WatcherGuru January 2022. Bieber paid 500 ETH for BAYC #3001 — 6x the floor price, zero rare traits. Eminem, Snoop, Steph Curry were all doing the same thing. Three months later the floor hit $429K. By 2023 it was gone. 99% drawdown. This is what the top looks like — every cycle.

Justin Bieber purchased this Bored Ape NFT for $1.3 million in 2022. Today, it's worth $12,000

November 28, 2012. First halving. BTC at $12 — peaked at $1,150 twelve months later. July 9, 2016. $650 → $19,800 by December 2017. May 11, 2020. $8,800 → $69,000. Three halvings, three mechanical post-halving bull runs. The fourth landed April 20, 2024, with Bitcoin already at $64,000. BlackRock's IBIT had logged 69 consecutive days of inflows by halving day — not a single outflow since its January 11 launch. When the largest Bitcoin ETF in history front-runs the supply shock with three months of continuous institutional buying, the cycle doesn't die — it just gets priced in before the block drops.

JUST IN: Michael Saylor says the four-year Bitcoin cycle is "dead."

@saylor November 28, 2012. Block reward: 50→25. Market cap: $130M. No ETFs. No corporate treasuries. The four-year cycle was built for that world. By 2025, BlackRock's IBIT held more BTC than miners produce in a year. Saylor's right. That world is gone.

Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycle is dead. Price is now driven by capital flows. Bank and digital credit will determine Bitcoin’s growth trajectory. The biggest risk is bad ideas driving iatrogenic protocol changes.

@BitcoinMagazine Just months before this, Laszlo paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. Satoshi was still active on the forums. The debate was still "does Bitcoin have real value?" And someone quietly bought 10 BTC for $3.48. Every bull run has a before. This is why we document it.

HISTORY: Buying 10 bitcoin for $3.48 in 2010 ✨ That 10 BTC is now worth $672,285 today.

March 2020. Gold fell 12% in four days as institutions liquidated everything liquid to cover margin calls. Bitcoin dropped 50% in the same 48 hours. Then the Fed printed $3 trillion. Bitcoin went from $3,800 to $69,000 in 18 months. Fixed supply was always the argument. Today's chart is the latest exhibit.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Over $777 billion wiped out from US stock market at open.

January 2009. Satoshi Nakamoto mined Bitcoin's genesis block, including a hidden message: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." The first transaction was recorded. Fifteen months later, a developer gave away 5 BTC for solving a CAPTCHA. For sixteen years, that faucet seemed quaint—a relic of when Bitcoin was worthless. Until Jack Dorsey did the math. Five BTC at $334K today. The faucet wasn't charity. It was velocity. Moving coins, building distribution, making Bitcoin feel spendable instead of scarce. Block's new faucet isn't nostalgia. It's the same mechanic, same principle, same unstated thesis: Bitcoin onboards through utility, not hype.

In 2010, this website would give away 5 #Bitcoin per visitor for free. 5 #BTC is worth $334,000 today. Jack Dorsey's Block is now launching a faucet in two days to give out free bitcoin 👀

The last time Bitcoin had a worse Q1 was 2018 — when it dropped ~48% as the post-2017 ICO bubble unwound. That year ended down 73% from ATH. The people who bought at the March 2018 lows around $7,000? They watched it hit $69,000 in November 2021. 2026 also marks the first time Bitcoin opened a calendar year with three consecutive red months. Jan, Feb, March all red. Never happened before. History keeps building. So does the patience required to witness it.

🚨 LATEST: Bitcoin just closed its worst first quarter since 2018, falling -22% in Q1 2026.

@saylor April 10, 2020. Good Friday. Bitcoin closed at $6,865 — down 50% from its January high, still fragile from the COVID crash that had taken it to $3,800 just weeks earlier. Eighteen months later: $68,789. The holiday never changed the math.

It’s a Good Friday to buy Bitcoin.

December 19, 2013. Saylor tweeted: "Bitcoin's days are numbered. It seems like just a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as online gambling." August 11, 2020, the day he announced buying 21,454 BTC for $250M, he found that tweet. "What an idiot," he said about himself. That was the smallest purchase he'd ever make.

November 2021. Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger publicly told investors the firm was staying cautious on crypto — too many unresolved issues to offer direct Bitcoin trading to its clients. He retired December 31, 2024. His successor just announced spot BTC and ETH trading for a firm with over $10 trillion in client assets.

JUST IN: $12 trillion Charles Schwab to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum trading for users "soon."

June 12, 2010. Gavin Andresen launched freebitcoins.appspot.com — the first Bitcoin faucet. Anyone could claim 5 BTC by solving a CAPTCHA. Each coin was worth less than a penny. He gave away 19,700 BTC before the site closed in 2012. The logic: put Bitcoin in enough hands and adoption builds itself. Jack Dorsey's Block is running the same playbook. The cost per coin has changed somewhat.

JUST IN: Jack Dorsey's Block is launching a BTC faucet to allow people to "earn free bitcoin" 👀

January 28, 2021. Robinhood restricted buy orders on GameStop, AMC, and a list of others — mid-session, no warning, while the trade was live. Tenev later testified to Congress that DTCC had demanded $3 billion in overnight collateral. Legacy settlement plumbing, not a conspiracy. But millions of retail users got locked out of a trade they were winning. Bitcoin didn't close that day. It never has.

JUST IN: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says "markets closing at the end of the day is a legacy design choice." "Tokenization opens the door to a system that looks more like the internet itself."

@BitcoinMagazine 2011: -93%. 2015: -86%. 2018: -84%. 2022: -77%. Every Bitcoin bear cycle has drawn down less severely than the last. Not opinion — the pattern is in the data. Wood isn't predicting something unprecedented. She's extrapolating a trend that's already four cycles old.

NEW: Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says on CNBC that Bitcoin's usual -85% collapses are "DONE" 👀 "This is a prove technology, it's a proven monetary system, and it's a new asset class." 🚀

November 21, 2023. Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court to violating anti-money laundering laws. Binance agreed to $4.3 billion in penalties — the largest corporate criminal resolution in U.S. history at the time. CZ stepped down as CEO. He was sentenced to four months in federal prison. Served it. Walked out. The book is called Freedom of Money.

Update on my book Freedom of Money. The launch is set for next week. Unless the editors pull me in for one more round 😂 E-books are now available for pre-order. English 👉 a.co/d/08NMxBOH Traditional Chinese 👉 a.co/d/01f7iQTn The English physical book will also launch next week. Regional language editions will follow in the coming months — taking a bit longer, but we’re on it.

March 9, 1993. Eric Hughes published "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" — a 12-paragraph essay for a mailing list of cryptographers sharing code. First line: "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." Hughes imagined people deploying their own privacy tools rather than requesting permission from corporations or governments. Most dismissed it as utopian. The vocabulary hasn't changed in 33 years. The hardware finally has.

My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026 vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/0…

@WatcherGuru April 5, 1933. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102. Every American had to turn in their gold by May 1 — at $20.67/oz. Refusal: up to 10 years in prison. It stayed illegal to own gold in the US until January 1, 1975. Bitcoin has no executive order that can reach it.

JUST IN: Gold crashes under $4,600 Over $1 trillion wiped out from its market cap today.

January 3, 2009. The day Satoshi mined Bitcoin's genesis block, he embedded a single headline into the code: "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." Not a random timestamp. A deliberate statement on why this needed to exist. Seventeen years of spending later, the headline in block zero still reads like a warning.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump to unveil $1.5 trillion defense budget, the largest yearly US military spending increase since World War II, Reuters reports.

March 2022. Ronin Bridge. $625M. Lazarus Group walked in with compromised validator keys. The FBI confirmed North Korea's involvement within weeks. February 2025. Bybit. $1.5B — the largest single crypto theft ever recorded. Same group. Same laundering patterns, same attribution. A 2024 UN report put DPRK's total crypto theft between 2017 and 2023 at over $3 billion, directly funding nuclear and missile programs. Drift adds to the ledger.

UPDATE: Blockchain analytics firm @Elliptic says the $285M exploit of @DriftProtocol carries multiple indicators of North Korean state-sponsored hacker involvement, citing laundering patterns consistent with previous DPRK-linked crypto thefts.

December 14, 2023. A former Ledger employee's NPM credentials were phished. Malicious versions of Ledger's Connect Kit — the software bridge between hardware wallets and DApps — went live at 9:49 AM UTC. SushiSwap, Revoke.cash, and dozens of others loaded the compromised library. ~$600,000 drained before Ledger patched it. The hardware wallet itself was never breached. Ledger's own infrastructure was. Hardware wallets protect the keys. They've never been able to protect you from what surrounds them.

Didn't know phishing attacks are possible with a hardware wallet. Stay SAFU!

October 31, 2008. Satoshi's white paper called it "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." Not a treasury asset. Not a Sharpe ratio play. Cash. The block size wars of 2015–2017 settled the debate: Bitcoin would be hard money, not fast payments. August 11, 2020, Saylor converted his treasury to BTC and gave it a new vocabulary. Fifteen years from e-cash to "an asset that pays you." The longest branding evolution in finance.

Three perfect products: A car that drives you. A robot that serves you. An asset that pays you.