This one does not need much explaining.

Bitcoin 1 #1
The Simulation

The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York on June 17, 1885.

Liberty is easy to turn into a poster.
Harder to keep alive in the pipes.

Speech, money, movement, custody. Different fronts, same pressure.

Freedom of Speech #32
Warriors vs. Villains, Gold, supply 421

June 24, 2011.

Bitcoin difficulty passed 1,000,000 at block 133056.

That is a clean little timestamp for the case: the network getting harder to fake, harder to attack, harder to ignore.

Proof of Work #122
Warriors vs. Villains, supply 500

June 20, 2011.

The EFF stopped accepting Bitcoin donations because the legal picture was too unclear.

That was early Bitcoin in one sentence: powerful enough to matter, strange enough to scare the lawyers.

Freedom of Speech #32
Warriors vs. Villains, Gold, supply 421

June 19, 2011.

MtGox leaked user data, an admin account got abused, and the exchange price was shoved from $17.51 to one cent before trades were reversed.

Early Bitcoin did not get stronger because everything worked.

It got stronger because the failures were expensive, public, and impossible to forget.

Mount Gox #17
Halving Edition Whale Pack

June 14, 2011.

WikiLeaks started accepting Bitcoin donations after the payment rails tried to choke them out.

That is the part people forget. Bitcoin was a way around permission before it was a Wall Street ticker.

Cypherpunks #9
FUD Busters, supply 2054

June 13, 2011.

A forum user claimed 25,000 BTC had been stolen from his wallet.

That number sounds unreal now. It was painful then too.

Self-custody is freedom, but it is not magic. You have to hold the keys like they matter.

Hardware Wallet #57
Orange Pill in a Pack, supply 1990

1984 was published on June 8, 1949.

The creepy part is how little of it feels old.

Screens everywhere. Language getting sanded down. Truth treated like something editable.

Bitcoin does not fix all of that.
But it does keep one ledger that does not care who is speaking.

1984 #51
The Simulation, supply 1000

June 6, 1934: the SEC is born.

Fair enough. Markets need rules.

But Bitcoin asked a different question: what if settlement did not need a referee in the middle of every move?

Bitcoin Exchange #58
Orange Pill in a Pack, supply 1990

June 5, 1933.

The US moved off the gold standard and picked managed money.

Bitcoin people argue about a lot of things. This one is pretty simple: if money can be rewritten by committee, someone is standing closest to the pen.

Sound Money #65
Warriors vs. Villains, supply 21

May 2017 was a weird month to watch Bitcoin.

It closed the month at $2,286.41. Up 69.6% in May alone.

The old money people kept calling it a bubble.
The chart kept making them say it louder.

The Cantillon Effect #59
The Simulation, Orange, supply 210

Pizza Day is not just a meme.
It is the first receipt.

Bitcoin Pizza #10