
The numbers, of course, told a story of their own. A story of over 145,000 individuals, last year, who found themselves, through a combination of foresight, audacity, and perhaps a touch of luck, counted among the Bitcoin millionaires. A considerable congregation of the newly affluent, born of the digital ether. But the market, like a capricious lover, had turned its gaze elsewhere, briefly. The price, once soaring towards the heavens, had settled, momentarily, around the seventy-thousand peso mark. This, however, should not be mistaken for a decline in the underlying narrative, but rather a pause, a gathering of breath before the next inevitable surge. The memory of its ascent – from fractions of a peso in 2009, to ten, then a hundred, then a thousand, and finally, a fleeting glimpse of one hundred thousand – remained vivid in the minds of those who had dared to believe.