The Inevitability Threshold: Bitcoin’s 1998 Moment Has Arrived
How the early internet, divine timing, and generational stewardship reveal that Bitcoin is not a fad, but a foundation God is preparing for the decades to come.
If there is one message I want to plant firmly for anyone stepping into bitcoin for the first time, it is this:
You are early.
Not emotionally early.
Not marketing early.
Structurally early. Historically early.
We are in the bitcoin equivalent of 1998, the moment when a technology is no longer a hobby, not yet fully understood, but already unstoppable.
And I say that not because it is bullish, but because the evidence is overwhelming.
The Early Internet — and the Moment Everything Shifted
To understand Bitcoin today, you must first understand what the internet actually looked like in its first decade.
The early 1990s internet was not the polished force we remember.
It was messy. Slow. Fragile. Misunderstood.
Nobody was predicting trillion-dollar companies. Nobody was imagining cloud computing or smartphones. They were simply connecting machines and hoping someone, anyone, would pay attention.
Yet beneath that obscurity, history was bending. This was the era when:
Nvidia launched in 1993 with no idea it would one day power global AI.
Amazon launched in 1994 and was mocked as a “tiny online bookstore.”
Google appeared in a Menlo Park garage in 1998 — a few doors from where I once lived.
Apple was fighting for survival, not leading the world.
Microsoft was racing to put Windows everywhere.
There was only conviction, experimentation, and a handful of people who saw what others couldn’t.
Then around 1998 something changed.
Browsers matured.
Protocols stabilized.
Bandwidth expanded.
Businesses went online.
Investors woke up.
Public adoption crossed the psychological threshold.
Infrastructure finally matched vision.
And once that happened, the flywheel started turning on its own. It no longer mattered:
Whether the public fully understood it
Whether newspapers mocked it
Whether early investors panicked
The internet had become inevitable.
Why I Place Bitcoin in 1998
The exact same pattern is happening right now.
Global Bitcoin adoption sits around 1–2% of the world, identical to the internet in 1997-98.
But here’s the part people miss:
Bitcoin’s foundation is already built.
Its rails are already global.
Its network is already anti-fragile.
And the surrounding ecosystem is maturing quickly:
• Infrastructure: The foundational “plumbing” is being built, scaling layers, better wallets, secure custody, ETFs, global liquidity.
• Regulation: Governments moving from “ignore” to “study” to “attempt to control,” just like the early web.
• Financial institutions: Banks and asset managers positioning quietly behind the scenes and now more publicly.
• Corporations: Experimenting with bitcoin and blockchain technology rails the way they experimented with websites in the 1990s.
• Younger generations: Understanding digital value instinctively, without needing permission or explanation.
In other words:
Bitcoin is no longer fragile.
Bitcoin is no longer hypothetical.
Bitcoin is entering its inevitable phase, just like the internet did in 1997–1998.
Marc Andreessen, co-creator of the modern web browser, has said this many times, and I have heard him explain it personally:
The early internet desperately wanted to become the global payments layer.
It wanted to move value just as easily as it moved information.
But it couldn’t. In the early 1990s: It was illegal to send credit card numbers online without meeting strict banking rules. There were no digital wallets. No cryptographic settlement. No programmable money. No blockchain. No trust layer at all
The internet could move data. But it could not move money.
Bitcoin is the fulfillment of what the early internet architecturally longed to become. Marc summarizes it simply:
“The Internet was a new way to transmit data. Bitcoin is a new way to transmit money.”
Bitcoin is not copying the internet’s adoption curve.
Bitcoin is completing the internet’s unfinished story.
What the early web could not build, bitcoin and blockchain technology delivered.
The Kingdom Lens — God Builds in Ages, Patterns, and Generational Arcs
Now lift the conversation from technology to theology.
Human beings measure progress in election cycles and price charts.
God measures progress in generations, patterns, and centuries.
Scripture is full of long arcs:
Forty-year deserts that shape identity
Seventy-year exiles that purify
Four-hundred-year spans that prepare the world for Christ
These are not delays.
These are designs.
God often builds the structure before the revelation, the rails before the train, the soil before the seed.
And for decades, the world has been building the rails Bitcoin would require:
Global networks
Mathematics
Cryptography
Distributed systems
Satellites
Fiber optics
Digital identity
Time-synchronized computation
All of it looked “secular,” but Scripture tells us God works through ordinary materials to prepare extraordinary purposes.
Bitcoin did not appear randomly.
It appeared the moment humanity hit maximum monetary fragility:
When trust failed
When inflation exposed every empire
When corruption hollowed out institutions
When people needed a foundation beyond human manipulation
God often introduces new structures at the precise moment old ones collapse.
Bitcoin is not the Kingdom, however it reflects Kingdom principles:
Honest weights
Integrity of measurement
Rewards for real work
No favoritism
Decentralized authority
Transparent truth
These were biblical long before they were digital.
And if God builds in generational arcs, then we must view bitcoin not by weekly volatility but by what it will mean for our children, and our children’s children.
We are early not because bitcoin is cheap but because God’s story for this technology has barely begun.
Prayer
Father, thank You for giving Your people eyes to see beyond cycles and headlines. Thank You for teaching us to measure time not by fear or frenzy, but by Your eternal purposes. Give us wisdom to steward this moment, courage to build for future generations, and discernment to walk in truth as You shape the financial foundations of the world. Let Your Spirit guide us into clarity, boldness, and Kingdom stewardship. Amen 🙏🔥