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@ Brunswick
2025-05-09 04:15:09
Humanity has spent millennia extracting 200,000+ tons of gold - burning forests, enslaving labor, poisoning rivers - just to move, guard, and hoard it. Entire wars waged, economies warped, lives lost, all to preserve a shiny, inert metal as a durable store of value. A massive civilizational misallocation.
Bitcoin, in 15 years, has consumed an order of magnitude less total energy and labor yet offers the same function: durability, portability, scarcity. It requires no armies, vaults, or ships - just math and electricity. Boomers assess it as a waste; history regards gold’s legacy as far costlier.