A single meal once bought for 10,000 Bitcoin (BTC) is now routinely cited as a symbol of crypto's staggering wealth creation—but the story is less about hindsight regret than a critique of how modern money works. The underlying argument is that Bitcoin's fixed supply functions like an unmanipulated measuring stick, exposing how inflation and asset-price appreciation are often two sides of the same monetary design.
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $75,000 on April 19 as the Strait of Hormuz shut down entirely and Iran rejected a second round of negotiations with the United States.