JUST IN: $337 billion asset manager founder Ric Edelman predicts Bitcoin will go to $500,000 by 2030 🚀
"My prediction is actually kind of low compared to many others." 👀
Algorand's x402 payments pass 1M settlements through the GoPlausible facilitator
The @AlgoFoundation posted that the mainnet service has now handled 2.02M transactions and $295.5K in volume from 1,097 unique payers, averaging roughly $0.29 per payment, with each payer settling about 920 times.
x402 is an open standard that lets AI agents pay for web services. GoPlausible's figures list 144 merchants and 142 providers using algorand:native rails.
You think Bitcoin has no value.
You think it’s just ones and zeros floating in cyberspace.
Here’s what you’re missing: Bitcoin is lightning captured in a bottle.
This is what makes Bitcoin so special. Check it out:
Every single Bitcoin that exists was forged in a furnace of energy. Real, measurable, physical energy.
Burned into existence.
Bitcoins are mined into being.
Mining consumes electricity.
They burn kilowatt-hours.
They convert real-world energy into digital scarcity.
Just like mining for gold requires energy to dig, refine, and distribute it, so does Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the first form of money in human history where the cost of creation is verifiable, measurable, and unforgeable.
That makes it unique.
You can’t counterfeit it.
You can’t just print it.
You can’t dilute it.
Because every satoshi is anchored to real energy expenditure from the physical world.
Gold? You mine it with labor and fuel.
Fiat? You print it with permission and propaganda.
Bitcoin? You burn energy to secure a global, decentralized ledger no government can rewrite.
This is the breakthrough.
Bitcoin isn’t backed by “trust” or “belief.”
It’s backed by proof.
Proof that energy was spent.
Proof that work was done.
Proof that cannot be faked.
This is what bitcoiners call Proof-of-Work.
So when someone tells you Bitcoin is “just virtual,” laugh in their face.
Bitcoin is energy converted into incorruptible capital.
Bitcoin is computation forged into monetary bedrock.
Bitcoin is the first asset in human history where scarcity is enforced by the laws of physics, not the whims of bureaucrats.
Bitcoin is digital.
True.
Bitcoin is virtual?
No.
Bitcoin is the most real money humanity has ever created.
Because it costs something to make it.
And it costs everything to break it.
That’s Proof-of-Work.
That’s Bitcoin.
With CLARITY stalled, I expect the SEC, CFTC, and Treasury to advance rules under existing law, banks to expand Bitcoin custody and loans against it, and more capital to favor Bitcoin and digital credit. GENIUS supports stablecoin adoption. Progress need not wait for Congress.
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