It’s been one year since I bought my first Bitcoin.

On Sept. 9, 2024, I put $100 into this strange new form of money with an ironclad investment thesis: We’ll see what happens.

A year later, Bitcoin had more than doubled from my $56,782 entry point. It hit an all-time high of $125,200 on Aug. 14. Even after a pullback, it was still trading at $113,840 on my one-year anniversary. My money had doubled.

But the real surprise over the past year wasn’t how much Bitcoin went up — it was what I learned along the way.

I started out curious about Bitcoin. But the deeper I went, the more I started questioning the system it pushes back against: the one we all live in but rarely stop to examine.

The more I learned, the more obvious it became: Bitcoin is the symptom. The U.S. dollar is the cause.

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