14 years on, why Bitcoin will survive its growing pains

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Next week, the entire digital asset industry will be celebrating Bitcoin’s 14th birthday, memorializing the moment Satoshi Nakamoto minted the very first Bitcoin block on Jan. 3, 2009. Since then, the industry has had cause to celebrate milestones both big and small: from the very first time the cryptocurrency was used to purchase a real-world item a year later – two large pizzas, to be precise – to the long-awaited launch of the United States’ first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund, issued by ProShares in 2021.