Hard to believe, but it's real. Bank of America shares just hit a milestone nobody thought would take this long—full recovery from the 2008 crisis. After nearly 17 years, the stock finally crawled back to pre-GFC levels.

Seventeen years. Let that sink in.

While crypto went from zero to a multi-trillion-dollar asset class, flipped cycles multiple times, and created entirely new financial infrastructure, traditional banking stocks were still digging out of the rubble. BofA shareholders who bought at the peak? They just got back to breakeven. No gains. No inflation adjustment. Just... even.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin's been declared dead 400+ times and still outperformed legacy finance by orders of magnitude. Different games, different rules.

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