he said it was like tulip mania in The Netherlands

He’s not wrong.

To be fair there’s a lot of crypto currency that was/still is a scam. Also I’d argue that BTC, and crypto in general, still is being treated as a security that’s backed by thin air. Ie: it’s a speculative asset that doesn’t actually have any value.

There’s nothing really stopping BTC from crashing hard. It’s so wild to me how people treat it.

I could have bought bitcoin too when it was worth pennies but there was no way to know which crypto the whales were going to bet on for the pump and dump. It’s a missed opportunity but rest assured there’s plenty of universes where Bitcoin amounted to nothing.

I genuinely tried to find it with my Google Fu but I’ve been foiled. Admittedly I spent 5 min or less looking because I don’t actually care but it seemed wild enough it might have been fun to figure the game out.