The New Consensus of the Interstellar Era: The Inevitability of Bitcoin Replacing Gold
Human civilization is迎来 the dawn of the interstellar era. The groundbreaking progress of SpaceX's Starship, along with the rapid development of AI and robotics, is transforming interstellar resource mining from science fiction to reality. Taking the Psyche asteroid, which Musk plans to explore, as an example—this near-Earth asteroid contains a total amount of gold that is 1.36 million times that of the proven reserves on Earth.
When space mining technology matures, the scarcity of gold will be completely overturned. History always astonishingly repeats itself:
Copper and iron replaced shells as currency
Gold and silver replaced copper and iron as hard currency
Now Bitcoin will replace gold
In the new era of information and interstellar civilization, Bitcoin, with its algorithmically determined absolute scarcity, global circulation convenience, and anti-inflationary currency properties, is becoming a higher-level civilization consensus. This is not a prediction, but an inevitable evolution akin to bronze replacing stone tools.
(Gold will ultimately return to its essence as an industrial metal, while Bitcoin will carry the mission of value storage for humanity in the next millennium.)
