bitcoin — a cryptographic digitised *coin* made up of digital bits -Electronic Cash A bit (‘binary digit’) is one of 2 values only Ø or 1 ~so bitcø1n (#bitcoin)
The founder of Renaissance Technologies - the hedge fund that makes 66% a year, runs the most secretive trading floor on Earth, and has never accepted outside money - once stood in front of 500 mathematicians and explained exactly how he did it.
Jim Simons. The Einstein Lecture. American Mathematical Society. 1 hour 20 minutes.They left it on a small university channel. Almost nobody knows it exists.
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Bitcoin is better money than gold. It has superior monetary properties.
In fact, Bitcoin beats gold on 25 different dimensions.
1. Portability: Move billions across borders with 12 or 24 words. Gold needs guards, vaults, trucks, customs, and prayers.
2. Divisibility: Bitcoin divides into 100 million sats per BTC. Gold is awkward to divide, verify, and spend in small amounts.
3. Verifiability: Anyone can verify Bitcoin supply and ownership with a node. Gold requires assays, trust, and specialists.
4. Scarcity certainty: Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million. Gold supply expands with mining, new discoveries, and potentially asteroid mining.
5. Supply auditability: Bitcoin’s total supply is publicly auditable in real time. Nobody knows the exact amount of above-ground gold.
6. Settlement speed: Bitcoin can settle globally in minutes. Gold settlement is slow, expensive, and institution-heavy.
7. Custody sovereignty: Bitcoin can be self-custodied without a vault. Gold self-custody is physically dangerous and logistically annoying.
8. Confiscation resistance: Properly secured Bitcoin can cross borders invisibly. Gold is obvious, heavy, and historically confiscatable.
9. Storage cost: Bitcoin can be stored for near-zero physical cost. Gold requires vaulting, insurance, security, and transportation.
10. Transport cost: Bitcoin travels at the speed of information. Gold travels at the speed of armored logistics.
11. Programmability: Bitcoin can integrate with multisig, time locks, Lightning, smart custody setups, and financial infrastructure. Gold is inert metal.
12. Global liquidity: Bitcoin trades 24/7 globally. Gold markets still rely heavily on traditional financial rails and business-hour settlement layers.
13. Settlement finality: Bitcoin can provide direct bearer settlement without trusted intermediaries. Gold often settles through paper claims.
14. Resistance to counterfeit: Bitcoin units are mathematically validated. Gold can be plated, diluted, faked, or rehypothecated.
15. No trusted issuer: Bitcoin has no central issuer, board, treasury, or refinery bottleneck. Gold custody often depends on institutions.
16. Easier inheritance: Bitcoin can be structured with multisig and recovery planning. Gold inheritance is physical, messy, and theft-prone.
17. Collateral efficiency: Bitcoin is easier to pledge, move, audit, and financialize digitally. Gold collateral is slower and more custodial.
18. Transparency: Bitcoin’s monetary policy and ledger are open. Gold’s market is opaque, with hidden reserves, paper claims, and unclear leverage.
19. Censorship resistance: Bitcoin can be sent peer-to-peer globally. Gold needs physical handoff or trusted transport.
20. Energy-to-scarcity conversion: Bitcoin turns energy into digitally verifiable scarcity. Gold turns energy into heavy rocks guarded by men with sunglasses.
21. Monetary upgradeability: Bitcoin can absorb software improvements at the network edges. Gold cannot become more useful without wrapping it in trust-based systems.
22. Unit consistency: Every bitcoin is perfectly fungible at the protocol level. Gold varies by purity, form, assay, and bar history.
23. Lower friction: Bitcoin is easier to buy, sell, send, receive, verify, split, secure, and integrate into modern finance.
24. Digital-native compatibility: Bitcoin fits an internet economy. Gold belongs to a world of vault receipts, musty central bankers, and men named Klaus guarding basements.
25. Personal sovereignty: Bitcoin lets one person hold immense wealth directly. Gold makes you become your own medieval castle.
JUST IN: BILLIONAIRE MIKE NOVOGRATZ JUST TOLD FOX THAT THE #BITCOIN BOTTOM IS DEFINITIVELY IN
CLARITY WILL BE SIGNED INTO LAW IN AMERICA
CRYPTO WILL EXPAND TO BILLIONS GLOBALLY
HERE WE GO 🚀
JUST IN: $3.5 TRILLION GOLDMAN SACHS JUST URGED THE US GOVERNMENT TO PASS #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO MARKET STRUCTURE
WALL STREET MOVING FULL STEAM TO BTC. HUGE 🔥
$500 invested 10 years ago with no leverage, just pure HODL.
-Ethereum: $1,395,089
-Bitcoin: $91,147
-Nvidia: $125,156
-Tesla: $15,482
-Apple: $5,335
-Microsoft: $4,569
-Alphabet: $4,449
-Netflix: $4,062
-Amazon: $4,050
-Meta: $3,319
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