Gold was sound money for thousands of years. Fixed supply, global trust, no manipulation. But it had a fatal flaw: it was too slow and too seizeable.
When governments needed to override gold's constraints during wars, they just took it. Gold lives in vaults. Vaults can be raided.
Fiat solved gold's speed problem but broke its fairness. Suddenly money could move instantly, but only a few actors could create it. Central banks, commercial banks, governments. They printed first for themselves. The result: rampant expansion, distorted signals, and inequality baked into the system.
Fiat trained us to think short-term because saving gets punished through debasement. It enabled massive wars and debt cycles. Power centralized in ways that would've been impossible under sound money.
But fiat served a purpose. It was the bridge we needed to cross. It bought us time to build global trade, communication, and coordination systems. It got us to the digital age.
Now we have something better. Bitcoin restores gold's fixed supply and integrity while delivering fiat's speed. It's self-custodied, permissionless, anti-fragile. The more it's attacked, the stronger it becomes.
Bitcoin completes the arc. It doesn't erase the past. It transcends it.
https://firebtc.substack.com/p/the-bridge-we-had-to-cross
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