Today, Bitcoin turns 18 years old, counting from the day its whitepaper was released on October 31, 2008. Back then, it was just a 9-page PDF, worth $0, with no exchanges and barely anyone believing in it. Today, BTC hovers around $77,300, with a market cap exceeding $1.55 trillion, becoming something that even banks and governments can’t ignore. Ironically, this very birthday month, October, just wiped out around $300 billion from the entire market—the month traditionally called “Uptober” turned red this year. In the past 24 hours, 254,000 traders were liquidated for $1.68 billion, while whales quietly accumulated 2,573 BTC—roughly $202 million. Over the past 18 years, people have declared Bitcoin dead countless times—and yet it’s still here. I’m still sitting here eating noodles, staring at the charts like always, except now my bowl of noodles costs a little more than before. What do you think: in another 18 years, will people speak of Bitcoin as an asset—or as the wildest chapter in financial history?