Many bitcoiners are butt hurt to see gold going parabolic. Zoom out, bitcoin has performed exceptionally well so far this decade and will continue to do so. Gold is having its day because governments are falling back to what they know as the dollar reserve system comes into question. China is setting up a parallel settlement network using gold and it's using gold because it's been reliable for millennia and, more importantly, has the liquidity profile to settle the size they need to settle if they're going to compete with treasuries. This does not change the fact that bitcoin is superior in every way to gold. It's a harder money that's more easily divisible, easier to send, easier to verify and easier to custody. Bitcoin still has many trillions of dollars of market cap to add before it can compete with gold from a liquidity perspective. I am more optimistic than ever that bitcoin will reach this point because more people are learning these facts every day and the infrastructure around the protocol is advancing at a faster pace than I've ever seen. Square's release this week is the latest example of this. 4,000,000 merchants across the United States are currently being forced to ask the question, "Should I accept and hold bitcoin?" How many do you think will take the plunge? Zoom out. image

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Z2theach 2 months ago
Gold leads, Bitcoin follows. If this is the runup for gold, Bitcoins runup will be just as impressive.
Of course you went back to 2015 when bitcoin had a market cap less than 10 billion lol Gold is 10X the size and eating our lunch this year. Nothing wrong with taking the L with dignity. Gotta be a good sport
Square's move ought to force governments into de minimis cap gains exemptions the same way demand for Uber and Airbnb changed all kinds of silly regulations. Disruption is a beautiful thing.
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Dabby 2 months ago
Let's be clear. Adoption is growing in centralized structures, i.e., ETFs, govies and corporations. We the people are not the winners in this fight right now. Individual adoptions ownership needs to escalate to keep it out of the governments and corporations hands. If this doesnt happen, it will become another co-opted financialized asset. We have to remember that Bitcoin is for us, not them. Blackrock is not here to help us, neither is Saylor
I hate to break it to you, but bitcoin is for anyone. Can't force people to adopt it either. Everyone moves at their own pace.
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Gabe 2 months ago
I love seeing gold rally regardless of what bitcoin is doing as we’re in the same team. Hard money is the way.
I am happy for the gold bugs, they educated me. Plenty of sunshine for the both of us.
So true! Golds market cap growing so much over the last couple years just reminds us all that the world is moving toward neutral, global, reserve assets. Of course all of the sovereigns and baby boomers are going to store a majority of their wealth in the asset thats way larger and been around way longer. But over the next 10-20 years these Boomers will cycle out as the younger Gen X’s and Millennials begin to retire with all their acquired wealth. We will still, obviously, be hoarding most of our wealth in global, reserve assets. But it will be a lot heavier allocation into BTC. Millennials arent going to be hoarding and securing physical gold bars and handing them off to our kids! Fuck outta here! We will be transferring our self custodial keys or setting up customized, family, multisig funds to pass on our generational wealth! I’m not knocking on Boomers either, many of them are coming around! They are admitting that it’s now at this point, more risky to have 0% in BTC than to have at least a small allocation to it. It’s also smart to not put all your eggs into an asset that’s not even 20 years old when you’re already in your 60’s and hopefully enjoying retirement. View quoted note →
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Phi Ta Khon 2 months ago
No one was manipulating bitcoin like the LBMA and COMEX have been manipulating gold. But now that the ETFs are here…
Yeah I needed to hear that man. It feels like my conviction in this thing is being tested yet again. Your explanation is logical & IMO likely. BRICS are clearly betting on gold. In the 19th century China, India, Mexico & Latin America bet on silver. They learned very painfully to always choose gold. But that wasn't the lesson.
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BottleTeams 2 months ago
All assets will appreciate as the dollar dies; some faster and at different rates than others.
Sound words. Gold has been a media “Fear trade” for decades. Bitcoin has been a media “Speculative asset” at least since it was initially accepted by Wall St in 2021. Both of those media labels are breaking down now. But it’s fitting that Gold/Silver breaks-up first. It has generations of head-start. That’s SO important to understand. And YES, it is absolutely going to suck the wind out of the sails of Bitcoin, which is what is happening. But it’ll be short, and (hopefully) globally-dramatic I suspect. Like experiencing the “big artillery” bash at the walled-gates of a bastion - before the living army swarms in to capture it piece by piece in slow but very Real-time.
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Benking 2 months ago
#Bitcoin builds empires for eternity. Stack sats, the future isn’t waiting.
Q2 2026, the big print and the marriage of Fed and Treasury will be the real bull market. Gold will have its time again until then and bitcoin will become unstoppable after. Nations stacking gold is the last breath of fiat trying to stay alive.
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Sam 2 months ago
Gold market cap has recently been going up sometimes $0.5 trillion *per day*. If that amount flowed to bitcoin instead, the bitcoin price could double *per day*. 🤯
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Mr Liberty 2 months ago
If you want more reward/risk, buy only Btc. If you want less risk and diversión buy both, but less reward
China and Russia have been stacking gold for 15 years. USA needs to back BITCOIN and flip them. Get the entire western world on a BTC standard. Let the best money win.
I’m well aware he said a decade, which is WHY I said 2015. You completely missed the point. Reading comprehension down bad
China has had its parallel settlement system in gold set up for 20 years. Its just that now foreign companies and countries are using it more. Unlike western countries, they let you take your gold.
Accept the lesson: For Bitcoin, Store of Value hinges on becoming Medium of Exchange, without it gold has broader appeal. Therefore, we must make a special effort to make the Medium of Exchange usecase real. It is #Bitcoin's true strength – once we stabilise volatility. That's the mission of Bitcredit Protocol.
Bitcoin has its place but it is not superior to gold. If it was, so would every shitcoin be. In fact there are other cryptos technologically superior to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has traits of gold like an apple has the traits of an orange. They are their own things. And given the fast rate of technological development, Bitcoin will inevitably be surpassed. That's why only gold can be gold for billions of years.
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Yash Belavadi 2 months ago
yes, totally! Thats because of gold's long history since non-digital world, while bitcoin around for 15 years and for sure we are in digital world now and in future. So time will tell.
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HelpfulGiraffe 2 months ago
Which ones and why ? From what I can tell at the base layer all others make a trade-off which causes significant validator (node) centralisation. Which to me is a non-starter