Choosing between bitcoin and gold to protect your long-term purchasing power should be an unemotional decision, grounded in logic, with the interests of your future self in mind (a single-player game).
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1/ Gold solved sending value across time.
Bitcoin solves for both time AND space.
2/ Both gold and bitcoin cannot be artificially synthesized.
But bitcoin is more easily authenticated.
3/ The physical nature of gold comes with security, storage and insurance costs that scale linearly with value.
Compare this with securing a 256-bit number.
4/ It should also be noted that what we deem 'money' is not static.
Money is technology that changes over time.
5/ Creative destruction is the process of entrepreneurs out-innovating incumbents, rendering them obsolete, under a free-market.
The dominant tech forces of today were once new entrants that dematerialized a previously physical good or service
6/ Money is not immune from this process, it evolves over time as new forms offer stronger incentives.
7/ As store of value assets compete in the same environment, even a slight advantage will result in a disproportionate share of the spoils.
8/ The winner will also drain part of the monetary premium from all other stores of value.
9/ Technology gets obsoleted, money gets demonetized. We've witnessed this throughout history.
Case Study:
India’s adoption of a silver standard from 1835-1893 while the trading partners upgraded to gold
10/ We now have over a decade of data from which to identify a trend and draw a conclusion.
You be judge, after all- it’s your purchasing power.
11/ In summary:
first-principles > emotions
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