Seventeen years.
Is the time span from the release of the Bitcoin white paper to 2025, which happens to be the period a person grows from infancy to adulthood. If we compare cryptocurrency to a person, 2025 is its coming-of-age ceremony—no longer a geek toy in the basement, no longer a gambler's casino, but truly entering the mainstream world.
When the world's largest asset management company BlackRock launched an on-chain fund, when the President of the United States signed an executive order to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and when the annual trading volume of stablecoins reached $46 trillion—nearly half of Visa's global payment network—we have to admit: cryptocurrency has grown up.