With the fourth Halving on April 20, 2024, my homage to the Bitcoin Halving is finally complete.
 
I have been working on four drawings for over 5 months, spent a total of almost a 1000 hours and have planned it so that I can present this final drawing today. This series will continue with a Bitcoin - Genesis drawing in 2025 and then lead to the fifth Halving 3 years later.
 
I would like to take this opportunity to recap what a brilliant, but also turbulent and groundbreaking time we have experienced with Bitcoin in the last ~4 years.
 
Here is a chronological summary of the most formative events in the fourth epoch of the Bitcoin Age - let’s go:
 
On August 11, 2020, publicly traded company MicroStrategy bought 21,454 Bitcoin worth $250 million for the first time, claiming that Bitcoin is the 'superior cash'. From now on, this will make Saylor known to the entire Bitcoin space.
 
Just under six months later - on February 8, 2021 - Tesla announced it had acquired $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin in a filing with the SEC. 'More flexibility and to diversify and maximize further profits' was the reason for this.
 
Again, half a year later, Bitcoin became legal tender in the first country on our planet. On June 9, 2021, the government of El Salvador under Nayib Bukele published a law in the official gazette that makes Bitcoin legal tender. The law came into force on September 7, 2021.
 
On November 10, 2021, Bitcoin reached a new all-time high measured in the world reserve currency: ~$69,000. Bitcoin impressively reveals that even the most relevant currency on the planet is just a shitcoin.
 
Exactly one year later, on November 10, 2022, Bitcoin reached the lowest level of ~$15,800 in this epoch, breaking even the all-time high of ~$20,000 in 2017. Never before has that happened.
 
Just one day later, on November 11, 2022, one of the largest and most important exchanges in the history of digital money collapsed: FTX went bankrupt and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested for fraud amounting to billions of dollars. The bear market was freezing cold, but Bitcoiners continued to fight.
 
This was also the case on March 23, 2023, when Greenpeace wanted to launch a smear campaign against Bitcoin with a work of art by activist Benjamin von Wong. The 'Skull of Satoshi' was born.
 
From June 8-10, 2023, the largest and most influential Bitcoin conference in Europe, BTCPrague 2023, took place in Prague. Around 7000 enthusiasts visited the Bitcoin capital and learned why Prague is a true pioneer when it comes to Bitcoin.
 
Towards the end of 2023, Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao surprisingly resigned as CEO of the world's largest crypto exchange - Binance - on November 21 and admitted to money laundering in the United States.
 
In the new year 2024, the most influential event in a long time took place on January 10. For the first time, a Bitcoin Spot ETF was approved by the SEC. In addition to BlackRock and Grayscale, a total of 11 ETFs were given the green light.
 
On February 22, 2024, Bitcoin history took place in Germany: Bitcoin in the German parliament - an initiative by Blocktrainer , Roman Reher and Joana Cotar to clarify and correct misinformation about Bitcoin, bringing Bitcoin closer to members of the Bundestag.
 
A victory for the truth: on April 11, 2024 hodlonaut announced to have finally won after almost 5 years of fighting in court in Norway with Craig Faketoshi Wright after Craig Wright dropped his charges.
 
Concluding this epoch of emotion, fun, frustration, innovation, development, fake news, but also truth and victory, block 839999 took place on April 20th, marking the end of the fourth epoch. In this fourth epoch of the Bitcoin Age, we have seen for the first time how heads of state through people like Saifedean Ammous , Max Keiser or Samson Mow, have opened themselves up to the inevitable evolution of money and are preparing their countries for it.
 
This was just the beginning. Block 840000 heralds the fifth epoch of the Bitcoin Age and yes, I know the last 210000 blocks were wild, but trust me guys, the next 210000 will be unimaginably crazy. Fasten your seatbelts my friends and enjoy this fabulous journey!