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it took 5000 years for humans to adopt gold as a money, where is #Bitcoin in it's journey becoming money measured in years

Mapping Bitcoin to Gold’s 5,000-Year Scale

If gold took 5,000 years to fully become money, we could compress that timeline for Bitcoin based on its accelerated adoption:

Gold’s first 2,300 years (~3000 BCE to 700 BCE): From "valued material" to "medium of exchange." Bitcoin hit this in ~4 years (2009–2013). Ratio: ~575:1 acceleration.

Gold’s next 700 years (~700 BCE to 0 CE): Store of value status. Bitcoin arguably reached this by 2021 (~12 years). Ratio: ~58:1.

Gold’s final 2,000 years (0 CE to ~19th century): Unit of account and global dominance. Bitcoin’s not there yet.

Let’s assume Bitcoin’s digital context speeds up the 5,000-year process by, say, 100x (a rough average of the above ratios, adjusted for modern tech). That compresses 5,000 years into 50 years:

16.13 years (today) ÷ 50 years = ~32% of the way through its journey.

In "gold years," Bitcoin’s at ~1,615 years (16.13 × 100), roughly equivalent to gold around 1400 BCE—past rudimentary use, but far from universal money.