Barry Bonds is the greatest baseball player of all time. Because of his PED controversy, pitchers were so reluctant to pitch to him that he inadvertently broke the MLB record for most walks in a season twice in his career (177 times in 2001, and 232 times in 2004). 

Baseball is a game that is so challenging to be successful at, you’re considered an above average player if you reach base about 30% of the time over a season. Imagine getting on base 60% percent of the time. 

Nobody has dominated baseball like Barry Bonds did in the 21st century. And nobody has dominated the crypto sector in the 21st century like bitcoin has. Since 2000, Barry Bonds has the highest on-base percentage, with an on-base percentage of .517. Since 2009 no other crypto currency has surpassed bitcoin’s market cap, which currently stands at about 400 billion.

There will never be an asset like bitcoin. It is virtually impossible for a cryptocurrency to surpass a one-of-a-kind proof-of-work digital asset that possesses real-world value on the rails of the internet. It is a creation that cannot be duplicated. And there will never be another baseball player like Barry Bonds. He’s the only baseball player to have 500 home runs and 500 stolen bases. And in a game where you are more likely to strikeout than get a hit, Barry Bonds in his prime was more likely to get on base than he was to strikeout.

Barry Bonds didn’t cheat. The object of modern sports is to create an advantage to win within the rules of the game. An increase in muscle doesn’t equate to skill. How many body-builders do you know that can hit a 100 mph fastball 450 feet? Barry didn’t know that a hanging curveball was coming. He had a trained-eye worth 250 million dollars. He was born to play baseball. 

And we tend to forget, there was a time when Barry Bonds wouldn’t have been able to play if he was born during the Jim Crow era. Did Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, or Ty Cobb cheat the game because they’re ball clubs refused to play with or against black players? Barry Bonds was destined to dominate the game. And he did. 

Bitcoin can’t cheat you either. But banks can. Financial institutions will cheat in order to gain the upper hand on competing banks even at the expense of the client. The purpose of the bitcoin protocol is to create an advantage against 3rd party financial institutions that have lied, manipulated, rehypothecated, and cheated their way into the hearts of hard working americans that pay an unnecessary interest to store their value. 

And finally, you can hate Barry Bonds all you want. You can hate the fact that he was a spoiled baseball brat born into baseball royalty who wasn’t a very friendly person. You can hate the legendary skill that very few, if any, are able to replicate. You can hate the fact that he holds the homerun record. But numbers don’t lie. And neither does bitcoin.