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Charlie Shrem, an early Bitcoin advocate, entrepreneur and founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, has addressed the global crypto community as he revisited an important BTC forecast he made several years ago.
He stated that his prediction is coming true much faster than he could have expected.
"It's happening faster than I thought": Shrem
Charlie Shrem quoted his tweet published on Nov. 2, 2019, where he made a prediction that caught the Bitcoin community’s attention. Shrem then said that he finds “the best way to hold Bitcoin forever” is to buy between five and ten Bitcoins and put them in cold storage, which “even you can’t access.”
He believes holding at least that much BTC for the future is crucial since he truly thinks that over the next 20 years, this will become money that will be able to change your life: “I truly think that 5 to 10 Bitcoin will be super life-changing money in 20 years from now.”
Today, he said in his tweet that it may happen much earlier than that since the process is going a lot faster than he expected: “It’s happening faster than I thought.” This is likely his reaction to accelerated Bitcoin adoption by financial institutions and Donald Trump's promise to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Strategy's Saylor believes future belongs to Bitcoin
Michael Saylor, a Bitcoin advocate and cofounder of the largest Bitcoin treasury company, Strategy, has taken to his X account to send yet another BTC-themed message to his millions of followers on social media.
Saylor shared an AI-generated image of himself this week, walking along a futuristic landscape with red sand and stones, resembling the surface of Mars. “The Future is Orange,” he tweeted, referring to Bitcoin (the orange color), thus making another reference to Elon Musk.
The first one was when he tweeted a “Bitcoin Maximus” post a day before, referencing Elon Musk-made meme “Kekius Maximus.”
Dan Burgin
Vladislav Sopov
U.Today Editorial Team