Gold carries the weight of centuries—the wars fought over it, the sweat and blood spent mining it, and the immense costs of securing and storing it. It’s a heavy rock that demands exorbitant fees just to sit safely in a vault, quietly asserting its value.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, emerges from the digital ether, backed by the same principles: the immense energy, computing power, and money poured into mining it. But unlike gold, it doesn’t cling to physicality. It’s weightless, purely digital, and always liquid—accessible at the click of a button, no storage vaults or armored trucks required. It’s freedom in your pocket, available wherever and whenever you need it.

One is the past, bound by its tangible nature. The other is the future, limitless in its form yet tethered to the same fundamental laws of effort and scarcity.

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Scarce resources + greed have always led to wars. As with gold, and land, and oil, so also will it be with bitcoin. Probably.

But this time if we agree on your thesis it's fair to say that the power projection in Bitcoin Wars will shift from kinetic to digital. If so then Bitcoin will become not only digital money and store of value but also a weapon.

Fair point -- the theatre of operation is digital, not mundane. ...let's hope 🤙

That's why I believe that Bitcoin is hope. Love that it evolved from your answer to my note.

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