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Total Engagement - Comments: 10, Retweets: 0, Likes: 11, Impressions: 107
Verbatim Community Citations & Social Evidence 1 source posts analyzed
The largest fortunes often come from owning something whose eventual importance is impossible to express through the valuation framework available at the beginning. If the future fits comfortably inside today’s spreadsheet, the asymmetry is usually already gone. Early Bitcoin
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AI visual note: A tweet from Andrew Hires (@AndrewHires) dated August 16, 2012, reads: "Sold my first 100 bitcoins at 11.989 yesterday. Now they are $13.10," showing 104 replies, 247 retweets, and 465 likes. The post illustrates the early Bitcoin lesson referenced in the caption—selling 100 BTC at ~$12 before they appreciated enormously exemplifies how the true value of an emerging asset like Bitcoin could not be captured by the valuations available at the time.