Happy 16th Birthday, Bitcoin

[@Bitcoin_University]

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[@ChiIeboy]

_Sweet Sixteen_ 🎉 Here's to 200K in 2025!!

[@Bitcoin_University]

@@ChiIeboy Why so bearish?

[@ChiIeboy]

@@Bitcoin_University LOL!!!

[@FlorisDVijfde]

People cannot be reminded enough how special not only bitcoin, but it's immaculate conception are. Some people think they can only change the world after becoming rich. Satoshi changed it by forfeiting fabulous wealth. And his reward was worth infinitely more than one man's riches. He changed history by providing a way out of fiat slavery.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Great comment

[@VotePaineJefferson]

"It's amazing what you can accomplish in life when you aren't too concerned with who gets the credit."

[@Chiro_ASMR]

beautifully put

[@moneycrab]

The idea the network has operated without interruption for 16 consecutive years is an insane accomplishment. Tick tock, next block, reliable digital money

[@Bitcoin_University]

Not quite without an interruption, but close: bitcoinuptime.com/

[@motopolak]

@@Bitcoin_University I love learning seemingly random details like this. Another cool one I learned recently is that, not counting the Satoshi lockup or any lost coins, the supply cap is actually slightly less than 21M BTC due to several small bugs and other mining experiments that occurred over time.

[@SuperYova]

The fact it has survived events like FTX's collapse is a testament to its longevity.

[@jeffdoyle]

Ftx collapse had no impact on bitcoin other than price. The network was blissfully unaware

[@DxV04]

​@Bitcoin_University 😂 under rated comment😂😂

[@bujin5455]

Now that Bitcoin is old enough to drive, let's see where it takes us!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Bitcoin's fiat price is almost as erratic as a teenage driver

[@MarcIverson]

It's probably keen to get someone it barely even knows pregnant.

[@chion918]

@@Bitcoin_University and old enough to fly,,,, to the moon perhaps?

[@SuperYova]

When Matthew Kratter talks, people listen. Great content, as always.

[@alexxxvai]

Bitcoin is the most promising 16 y/o I've ever come across... Young man you have a bright future!

[@kh9993]

It is also J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday. I appreciate his courageous fantasy, which showed that even if you start small (with small people), amazing things can happen.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Love Tolkien

[@MarcIverson]

Happy to see this alert and aware comment.

[@mschin008dw]

Happy 16th birthday BTC ! 🎉 so happy to have you in my life. You took me down the rabbit hole teaching me about the fiat ponzie scheme and even deeper societal corruption and WEF etc.. Thank you Matthew for your channel and courage and continued contribution. Thank you ❤

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thank you! What would you like me to cover next?

[@STP134]

Thank you, Matthew, for years of diligence, intelligence sharing, and care for your viewers!

[@Eastwood69]

Happy birthday Bitcoin and thank you Satoshi!!! I hope you get well soon Matthew!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thank you

[@kirkD9349]

Thanks for a timely video on the 16th birthday of bitcoin, and for highlighting the most important events during its genesis! New Year's Resolution: Move more towards living on bitcoin.

[@paul-od4gh]

Thank You 4 all your shows!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thanks so much for your generous support!

[@endthefed5304]

I wholeheartedly support your new year's resolution!! Let's all strongly advocate for our fearless leaders to abolish the IRS and the fed!! Woo hoo! 🎉🎉🎉

[@jyrisk8]

Thank you for creating valuable Bitcoin related content for every one of us. Wishing all the best for you!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thanks, same to you!

[@MrRem7600]

If you think about it, Bitcoin is quite literally the longest record ever in human history that is 100% verified truth. An almost insurmountable accomplishment that is often passed over and not recognized.

[@Lawtubes]

Great content. Bitcoin is the 🐐

[@klauskarpfen9039]

Happy Birthday Bitcoin, Happy New Year, Matthew, get well soon!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thank you

[@mschin008dw]

Thanks!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thanks for your generous support!

[@rightpa]

Happy Birthday Bitcoin. Thank you Satoshi for making it. Thank you Matt for leading me to it.

[@mollzyie]

Thank you for all your hard work… get some satoshis!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thanks so much for your generous support! This dirty fiat will be immediately converted to sats

[@mollzyie]

@@Bitcoin_Universityhahaha

[@digital_gravity]

Beginning the year having watched 1,143 Bitcoin University videos. Curious where that number will be this time next year!

[@Bitcoin_University]

That's amazing-- thanks for your support!

[@digital_gravity]

Thank you for all your hard work!

[@SatoshiHODL]

We appreciate you Matthew and your updates for us on hardware wallets, taxes, and everything. You have, through proof of (your) work, made yourself an institution in this community. Keep it up!

[@mrsmith913]

Its sometimes hard to wrap my mind around Bitcoin. Its history, its rise, the technical, and even the philosophical. Truly a wonder to behold. How many more tricks does it still have up its sleeve!

[@thachillguy]

Got to know several new interesting aspects I didn't know of before which is quite interesting. Especially with regards to the pre-mine aspects. Appreciate the video, keep up the good work educating us with the useful gems!

[@kerbyanderson6055]

Happy 16th birthday to Bitcoin.

[@Levilambson]

Excited about the Jade plus! Looking forward to a review about it!

[@ptruskowski]

Happy Birthday Bitcoin!

[@angelinetugmuan1981]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Happy birthday Bitcoin!! Long Lived Bitcoin and bitcoiner community!!

[@buckhorn868]

Thank you Matthew! Well done.

[@BatmanBoss]

Go BTC 🧡🧡🧡

[@dr.k.math.777]

Great video, Matthew. Always very informative and helpful and even inspiring.

[@joselevel7805]

Happy new year!

[@ilovebuckethead21]

happy new year gents!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Happy New Year! It's going to be an amazing one

[@motopolak]

Long live Bitcoin!

[@PittwaterMowingAustralia]

Happy Birthday BTC 🎉 Get well soon Matt

[@427vot]

Sweet 16! BTC getting a drivers license this year. Gonna start getting around now!

[@o4pureh2o]

Thanks as always Mathew. Happy birthday btc

[@CoalTrain84]

Love your videos. Thank you.

[@johnsyerp]

Well said Matthew!

[@Atlas_21]

Just a teenager and already causing so much trouble for central bankers around the world. 👊

[@lloydjackson9176]

I noticed BS Jade just released a Jade Plus. If money is not an issue, which do you think is better, the Jade plus or ColdCard Q? Great video!

[@MarcIverson]

I'm curious too. I'd like him to cover all that.

[@Wolffview]

Happy New Year Mathew, wishing you, your family and your YT channel a lot of success, let's us make it an unbelievable year.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thanks, and Happy New Year to you and yours as well! It's going to be an amazing year

[@beardedbiker778]

Also thanks for the advice on the Coldcard too, it feels good holding my Bitcoin on it 👐

[@nannnanaa]

Another dose of truth from The Bitcoin University.

[@steveholloway1963]

Thank you Mathew and happy bitcoin birthday

[@eriebreeze6584]

Storing dog poop in a jar in your freezer , kratter i love your humor , i love your content also right before the election i finally saw the light and began stacking sats . Its not much but in the future ill atill be at the same level of povertey just riding the wave

[@craigromburgh]

Amazing educational content about Bitcoin!! Thank you What are your thoughts on Trezor wallets as they are open source like Bitcoin?

[@themomista7175]

Happy sweet 16 Bitcoin! Feel better Sir. This fog weather got me all sick, never got sick in the last 10-15 years, never got the 19 virus- but this knocked me down pretty badly, just starting to feel better after a miserable week, hopefully you’ll feel better soon! Happy new year! Excellent video.

[@MK-hv4zc]

Hey Matthew, can you do a video on how BTC rewards will eventually go to zero and how this will affect the global economy at that time?

[@lazylonewolf]

I think he already made a video about this. Some title about "the last bitcoin mined", if that's what you mean.

[@CC-ii9hg]

Oh my God after all those hoops jumping through to do the safe harbor. LOL. Well maybe it was pre-work done, that we will benefit from in the future. You know by keeping our house in better order perhaps, thank you Matt, and happy New Year!

[@motopolak]

For real, I was so tempted to just say screw it, but I went ahead and barely got it done before the 31st was over haha. I can only hope I did it 100% correctly… but even better I pray we all never need it. Screw the Eye-Arr-Ess

[@tommoore4717]

Happy new year Matt

[@johndrake3472]

I have the same wishes for the New Year - End the Fed, end income tax and end capital gains tax - sounds great.

[@lightningplus_]

Lindy effect lives!. . .viva BTC!

[@parkplatz21]

Thanks Matt!!! !(Legend)!

[@MBarberfan4life]

People are still calling Bitcoin a bubble. Bubbles are short-lived by their nature, so it doesn't make a lick of sense to say that Bitcoin itself is a bubble.

[@Baldnesz]

Bubblebutt's being an exception to that.

[@CRAIGBYRNE-kl8hi]

Good Morning

[@Bitcoin_University]

Good morning

[@nannnanaa]

GM

[@MrInside20]

Happy Birthday Bitcoin 🎉 Anyone know when the mempool will be cleared? It’s been growing now for over 2 years. I wonder if we will ever seen cheap on chain transactions ever again! Maybe we can trust extra layers of software or even banks and etfs to custody our Bitcoin just like gold! That strategy never went wrong or anything…

[@edkarlander5388]

Great information. Yes! I know Old information. But, good to be reminded of birthday. Now tell me what will happen when the block rewards become so low that miners stop mining for Bitcoin. Will Bitcoin go to Zero. How will the miners have the ability to continue to support the network?

[@Bitcoin_University]

Even after the block subsidy goes to zero, miners will still be paid transaction fees for every transaction that they include in a block. Block subsidy has fallen from 50 BTC to 3.125 BTC and Bitcoin seems to be doing just fine. Hash rate just hit a new all-time high

[@edkarlander5388]

@@Bitcoin_University I like your reply. Maybe you could go into depth more, if you would consider. The next halving will be soon ( 2028). What sort of price does Bitcoin have to maintain for miners to be profitable today in 2025. Plus what will that number be in 2028 and beyond. Also, will transaction fees have to increase to help with costs? Thank you in advance.

[@sats_mcgee]

Been suffering myself with a head cold throughout Christmas. We mustn’t have been masking hard enough i guess Matthew 😅

[@Bitcoin_University]

I wore 5 masks at the same time, and got 16 boosters, and somehow I still got sick. Next time, I will wear 6 masks

[@DoloresAllys]

Great analysis, thank you! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

[@RogueRunna]

Imagine the 50th birthday : D - Happy Birthday Bitcoin!

[@SteveReed33]

With the new administration hopefully the likes of Phoenix will be allowed to operate in the US again. I would like to see an updated lightning wallet comparison as Phoenix and Breez seem to be doing very similar things but I am not sure on the nuances between them. It would be great to see you do a breakdown video of Strike vs Phoenix vs Breez vs Wallet of Satoshi and any other lightning wallets as a lot has changed in recent months both in software and hopefully legislatively as well.

[@krawkraw4999]

Thx for all your work Matt

[@bujin5455]

Public education has been highly effective. The government has convinced the tax cattle, that that's their highest and only purpose in life. It's amazes me we argue over whose not paying their "fair share" instead of whether it's fair for there to be shares at all. We've completely capitulated the moral high ground to the tax man.

[@travisthompson1679]

Comments like these give me hope. So frustrating that this isn't the default position.

[@Bitcoin_University]

Government schools teach gov propaganda. I agree with you

[@t-birdmr.t7980]

2020 has passed and the oceans haven't boiled.

[@beardedbiker778]

Thanks mate, party time

[@Johntron08]

Great video, thank you Matthew!

[@ianjohnson-beitman2918]

“Storing shipcoins in cold storage is like storing dog poop in a mason jar in your freezer. It’s embarrassing and disgusting. Only weirdo’s do it. So just don’t do it.” 😂 best thing I’ve heard all year. And last year.

[@juansong22]

Feliz cumple Satoshi. Aguante La Uni de Btc. Thanks for all the constant education Matt! 🎉🎉 Happy 2025 for everyone ✊🏼

[@APRocksnyc]

Sweet Sixteen 🎉

[@LearnMedinaArabic]

What do you think of trading options on bitcoin? Perhaps buying ibit and then selling a covered call on it etc?

[@Bitcoin_University]

I think it's smarter just to buy BTC and sit on your hands for 10 years

[@nidhogg6344]

Gotta love the bitcoin talk but gotta hate that altcoin hate honestly. Xrp ada or eth are not bitcoin, but they aren't scam coins. Now we have popcats and dogwifhats to call scam coins. I have bitcoin, but also xrp eth and ada, and i don't regret it. They have all given me the possibility, to get more bitcoin while lowering the average cost.

[@Meechdawg]

Wassup Matt, of course I have to make my own decisions. I currently don't run my own node, and I'm not at the capacity to do so yet, so should I just trust the Blockstream node to transfer my BTC from ledger to jade using sparrow? Of course, I'm willing to take that risk. I just want to get my BTC off the ledger into cold storage and halt the BTC buying until I can run my node or at least a prune node since trusting a node outside my own seems to be a big risk and could you make a video explaining spv vallets?

[@saeir]

Any thoughts on keystone 3 pro? If we’re using the bitcoin only firmware on it, is there anything that separates it from block stream or cold card ? Also similar question regarding the trezor safe 5?

[@Neon-rq6nd]

given ur respect for satoshi, if u found out he created another coin, one which was focused on ai. (imo this is the only thing btc is missing) would u think its a scam or would u buy?

[@gmckean7]

At least we can always count on government incompetence

[@Bitcoin_University]

True

[@simbiotik8480]

Sweet 16❤

[@Whatisfreedom2025]

Happy new year Matt!

[@ograndemito]

Tbh, your voice sounds better like this

[@dominickolas]

Is it important that the initial Satashi coins are still out threre? Does that create an unnessary risk? Do you think he wishes he burned them?

[@thechoonie3922]

Hi Matthew, do you think the new AI agents that are being created will transact using blockchains and bitcoin? Is that good for bitcoin?

[@davidmiller3852]

You need to call out Mark Moss for telling people to use the Tresor wallet.

[@only_visiting]

🍻 Cheers Matt

[@GregFlymeister]

Separation of money and State is a utopia because it is the State that defines the thing it accepts as payment of taxes.

[@troymcclure9088]

Hey Matt, did you update your opinion on Trezor cold wallet? I currently own a Trezor T but just hold my btc in it with no transactions.

[@world-uk2vj]

👏👏

[@TedAlexandro]

You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mined.

[@Bitcoin_University]

I'm very glad that you're talking about Bitcoin, and not something else lol

[@TedAlexandro]

@@Bitcoin_University Happy new year and as always, thank you for your incredible work.

[@russellmusictv4403]

Happy 15th! Not 16 yet even if going off of the earlier date.

[@rostislavfinance]

If I already have bought a trezor (Bitcoin only version), do I throw it?

[@hbakardzhiev]

You forgot free Ross and Snowden in new year resolution!

[@Bitcoin_University]

You're right-- I'm relying on Trump to keep his promises. If he doesn't on Day 1, we'll know something is wrong

[@hbakardzhiev]

@@Bitcoin_University If he doesn't, it would be a sign that he is yet another "politician" :(. PS: Thanks for the video, it is awesome as always!

[@Robert-tw6sr]

Matt, Do you think it would be a good idea for Trump to remove the CGT on BTC then have BTC Compete with fiat currency? What would the Feds do then?

[@hugomiller1025]

I have always thought that Bitcoin was launched as a response to the bank bail-outs and the GFC. But it must have been 'in the works' for a very long time before that. Prior to 2008, I seem to recall, things were going swimmingly - until the bubble burst. I would love to learn the whole story - and the thought processes behind it. I also have a theory about Satoshi's identity - I reckon he was a consortium of two or possibly more people in different countries. I think I know the identities of two of them, anyway. (Which of course I am not posting, as there is too muich wild speculation already - and even if I knew for certain, I would respect Satoshi's desire for privacy). I also have a suspicion that the keys to the 'Genesis Block' have been deliberately destroyed. But all this might of course be just the musings of an idle mind.

[@orpheusness2422]

I have my Bitcoin on a Trezor. Should I get a cold card instead?

[@Gr8Incarnate]

I wonder if Satoshi waited for such a headline in the news to publish the first block or it just happened to be an ironic coincidence.

[@andrewfalco9791]

Matt: who was the miner for the Genesis block. Was it Satoshi himself?

[@JefRdam]

Tbh if Sat was 1 person and and when you look at the writing im 99% it was. In the whitepaper he used the word ws. That's normal as a PhD person to do that in a whitepaper. Peoplw i think he is one of the smarter people and a visionair. Thmx for ohr freedom.

[@TheGamingCanadian]

Day 130 of telling Matthew his uploads are appreciated!

[@Bitcoin_University]

Thank you-- and Happy New Year!

[@TheGamingCanadian]

@@Bitcoin_UniversityThanks, happy new year to you too!

[@VonchkynProduction]

3:13 "Scammy company Coinbase". Yes, they are bordering criminality.

[@klasykapolskiegohh8798]

Any chance BTC will replace petrodolar?

[@Bitcoin_University]

Yes, it definitely will

[@klasykapolskiegohh8798]

@Bitcoin_University can you make a video on this topic, explaining why do you think that?

[@klasykapolskiegohh8798]

@@Bitcoin_University can you make a video on this topic,

[@Bitcoin_University]

@@klasykapolskiegohh8798 Here are a few: www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/search?query=petrodollar

[@beardedbiker778]

🎂🕺🏼🚀