The rabbit hole here is pretty wild. Dug up an old piece from mid-2014 that tracked the emergence of $TITCOIN back when the crypto market was still finding its footing.

Here's the thing—once the full mining cycle completes, we're looking at roughly 69 million tokens hitting circulation. Nothing crazy by today's standards, but back then? That was the playbook everyone was running. You had Dogecoin and Litecoin already establishing their niches, proving that alternative coins could actually carve out differentiated positions despite the Bitcoin dominance.

The early days really show how much the ecosystem has evolved. Each project was basically racing to define what made them distinct—whether it was supply mechanics, community vibes, or just pure meme energy. Wild to see how some of those experiments from 2014 still echo through today's market.