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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺. There was a shoebox. A friend had a tiny computer sitting inside it, fan humming quietly in the corner of his room. I asked what it was. He said: "That's my Bitcoin node." I laughed. Then he showed me what it was doing. 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲. 𝗕𝘆 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳. No bank telling it what was true. No company it had to trust. No permission needed to join. Just open software, running on a box that cost less than a nice pair of sneakers, verifying the entire history of a global monetary network. 𝗔 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗲𝗯𝗼𝘅. That image never left me. Because up until then, I thought crypto was about trading. Buy here. Sell there. Watch the candles. That night I realised it was really about something deeper: ➜ You don't have to trust the system ➜ You can check it yourself ➜ And anyone, anywhere, can do the same Since then I've seen bull runs, crashes, hype cycles, collapses and comebacks. Narratives come and go. That one idea has survived every single cycle. So if I could write Page 10, it would be three words: "𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁, 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘆." Still the best three words in finance. My hope for the next chapter is simple: 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. More people who understand what's under the hood. More people who ask "can I check that?" before they ask "will it pump?" Satoshi wrote nine pages so we would never have to blindly trust again. Page 10 is on us to keep that promise alive. Have you ever run a node, or seen one up close? #BitcoinWhitepaperDay @MEXC