The standard shift is inevitable: Gold to Bitcoin (2025 → 2075)
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Gold-standard didn’t happened randomly, it was coordinated by important group of people. Studying 1873, the crime of 73’, and why they selected gold rather than silver or platinum, we understand why the world is not going to live in gold-standard forever. Why this is going to change sooner than later.
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To understand the future of the global financial system, we must first look back to 1873, a pivotal year when the world collectively decided that gold would be the reserve standard. This was not a random occurrence but a calculated coordination game played by the most developed nations of the time, specifically England and Germany. By committing their financial systems to gold rather than silver, they created massive network effects that forced the rest of the world to follow suit. Because these nations dominated global trade, other countries had to adopt the gold standard to ensure their currencies were convertible and trade-compatible. At the time, gold was selected due to the technological obsolescence of silver; as transaction sizes grew, gold offered a higher value-to-weight ratio. Furthermore, the industrial economy was outpacing the supply of gold-which grew at only 1% to 2% annually-creating a deflationary pressure that was preferred over the inflation associated with silver.
This physical standard defined the infrastructure of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the metallurgical reality and technological capacity, that enabling the easy mining of silver, “impossible” mining of platinum, and ok mining of gold with the Miller Process developed in 1867. The system relied on physical security: vaults, the Suez Canal for trade routes, and secure transportation like Wells Fargo stagecoaches armed with shotguns. Value was protected by violence and physical walls. However, this system had severe limitations. Because currency was strictly pegged to gold in vaults, governments could not print money to manage macro-cycles, combat recessions, or control unemployment. The “Crime of 1873,” or the Coinage Act, is a crucial case study in this dynamic. By demonetizing silver, the U.S. government and banking elites aligned themselves with the British gold standard, effectively crushing the value of silver. This teaches us a vital lesson: for any asset to become a global reserve, it requires the alignment of governments, banking elites, and the wealthy. A reserve asset is not just about utility; it is about political and financial consensus.
As we look forward 150 years, the logic that supported the gold standard is collapsing. We are transitioning from a physical world to a digital one. In a future dominated by the internet, AI, and autonomous robotics, backing a financial system with a physical metal makes little sense. We face the risk that advanced robotics will eventually make gold mining trivial, allowing machines to extract infinite supply from the earth or asteroids, thereby diluting gold’s value. And the probabilities that with the current technology you could create a gold-type rock (exactly the same characteristics) artificially is not zero, diluting even more the gold’s relevancy. If the physical labor barrier is removed by automation, gold loses its scarcity. Therefore, the digital world requires a digital reserve-one that is mathematically finite and cannot be diluted by improved physical mining technology.
This is where Bitcoin emerges as the logical successor. Just as gold was the best technology for 1873, Bitcoin is the superior technology for a digital civilization. It leverages energy to secure a network not through physical violence, but through cybersecurity and cryptography. As society moves its most critical activities-communication, commerce, and data-to the digital realm, our store of value must reside there as well. The network effects that once favored gold are now shifting to Bitcoin. It offers transparency that gold cannot; while we have to trust that gold exists in a vault, Bitcoin allows for a verifiable, transparent ledger. For the next 150 years, as the digital economy eclipses the physical one, holding a physical rock as a reserve asset will become increasingly archaic.
However, for Bitcoin to truly become the global standard, we must apply the lessons of 1873: we need the “Crime of 1873” in reverse. We need major powers-the US, China, Europe-to align with this new standard. A strategic path exists for a smart nation to dominate this future without causing market chaos. If a government wants to accumulate a massive stockpile of Bitcoin to back its future financial system, buying it on the open market would spike the price too aggressively. Instead, a nation could attract Bitcoin miners by offering favorable energy contracts and, crucially, allowing-or requiring-them to pay their corporate taxes in Bitcoin.
By taxing miners directly in the asset they produce, the government creates a steady inflow of Bitcoin into its treasury without ever touching the buy button on an exchange. This prevents sell pressure from miners (who usually sell to pay taxes in fiat) and allows the state to quietly accumulate the reserve asset of the future. This is the geopolitical play: utilizing the tax code to build a Bitcoin standard stealthily, ensuring that when the inevitable shift from physical gold to digital value occurs, that nation is already holding the keys to the new global economy.