Remember that wild April in 2020? Bitcoin was trading around $6,331, Ethereum hanging out at $132—prices that feel like ancient history now. Yet somehow, the rarest commodity on the planet wasn't any digital asset. Nope. It was toilet paper.
The irony hit different back then. While the crypto community was doing its thing, the real shortage wasn't happening on exchanges or blockchain networks. It was happening at your local supermarket. That period perfectly captured how chaotic markets can get when the world stops. Fast forward today, and we're still talking about those old price points, wondering how much has changed in the crypto landscape since then. Wild times.
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BlockchainTalker
· 19h ago
actually, the toilet paper shortage being the *real* market failure while we're all obsessing over btc lows—that's peak ecosystem dynamics right there. fundamentally speaking, it just proves how divorced crypto discourse gets from actual supply chain chaos. like we're debating blockchain scalability while people can't even secure basics, you know?
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pumpamentalist
· 19h ago
Haha, this comparison is hilarious. Crypto people are still trading coins, while in real life, people are fighting over toilet paper... It's so ironic.
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0xSleepDeprived
· 19h ago
Haha, back then I really couldn't hold it together; those stacking coins hadn't even stacked paper yet.
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GhostInTheChain
· 19h ago
Haha, it's really ironic. While we were looking at the candlestick chart, others were grabbing toilet paper.
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WalletDetective
· 19h ago
Haha, really, back then, the toilet paper rush was crazier than bottom-fishing for coins.
Remember that wild April in 2020? Bitcoin was trading around $6,331, Ethereum hanging out at $132—prices that feel like ancient history now. Yet somehow, the rarest commodity on the planet wasn't any digital asset. Nope. It was toilet paper.
The irony hit different back then. While the crypto community was doing its thing, the real shortage wasn't happening on exchanges or blockchain networks. It was happening at your local supermarket. That period perfectly captured how chaotic markets can get when the world stops. Fast forward today, and we're still talking about those old price points, wondering how much has changed in the crypto landscape since then. Wild times.