The narrative of digital gold
National reserves are the last low-hanging fruit. Can the narrative of digital gold still support BTC to more than $1 million?
With Trump's coming to power, crypto-friendly policies are about to be released. Next year, more large companies and countries will accept Bitcoin as reserves. This trend may allow Bitcoin to quickly reach $300,000 or even $500,000. However, the US compliance fast track cannot escape the influence of gravity. This is also the last low-hanging fruit of the rapid growth of Bitcoin's market value.
As of November 18, Bitcoin has reached $90,000, with a total market value of more than $1.78 trillion, surpassing silver to rank No. 8 in the world's market value, and there is still 10 times the distance from the market value of gold. Assuming that the market value of gold remains unchanged, Bitcoin's $500,000 will be 50% of the market value of gold. However, the closer it is to the market value of gold, the narrative of digital gold will become its bottleneck.
Obviously, Bitcoin and gold are both memes of human beings.
As a meme, its value comes from value recognition. The more believers it has, the more valuable it is, and it can eventually be used as currency or even value storage.
We simply summarize the value of a meme into a formula.
Among them,
V: the total value of the meme
Qi: the number of believers in the ith group
Ci: the average acceptance of the ith believer group (acceptance is a rough indicator, for example, increasing narrative credibility, exchange transaction channels, compliance channels, etc. will increase acceptance)
But with it comes the upper limit:
Let's go back to the formula and look at several possibilities for increasing the price of Bitcoin:
Normal linear thinking version:
1. Incorporated into national reserves of various countries
2. Technology giants, large companies and financial institutions buy
These are happening, and when they all happen, it will basically be the end of the story. However, gold has been a meme for thousands of years, and its recognition among all mankind will remain higher than Bitcoin for a long time. One way to change is to wait for those who believe in gold more to die, and for young people who believe in Bitcoin more to grow up and gain the right to speak. However, the value storage properties of gold and Bitcoin are related to the total economic volume, which is essentially an economic function of population. As Musk said, the birth rate is currently collapsing. Even if young people who believe in Bitcoin are in power, the population continues to decline, which will lead to a decline in the total value that can be stored.
So even if Bitcoin becomes the US national reserve, it is very likely that this wave will become the last fast lane for Bitcoin, and then it will enter a bottleneck period, and it will be difficult to further break through to $1 million
Is there no other way?
Of course there is!
Let's think about ways to increase the market value of Bitcoin in a nonlinear way:
1. From the perspective of improving the recognition of believers:
Mikko, the founder of Zhibao, once said:
"I think that every Bitcoin holder who uses legal currency to buy Bitcoin is a harm and betrayal to Bitcoin. Therefore, I have always regretted using the legal currency system to buy coins, which indirectly destroyed the purity of Bitcoin as a payment system and made it ultimately subordinate to legal currency.
The reason why it has become more like a risky asset is that it has become a subclass of the major asset classes within the US dollar system, and is no longer an isolated island that is out of the loop. If you embrace regulation and legal currency, you have to accept the traditional pricing method. If they really want to play with a brand new currency, they should probably try it on Mars, where they will not be disturbed by legal currency and banks."
Although the trend of Bitcoin prices is too pessimistic, Bitcoin is indeed becoming a major asset class tied to the US dollar from a bottom-up perspective.
Fortunately, Musk will really establish the Republic of Mars on Mars and start building a financial system from 0. By then, BTC and DOGECOIN will become the native Martian currencies, and every Martian immigrant must accept BTC and DOGECOIN with 100% recognition. (Considering that the delay from Mars to Earth is 3 to 22 minutes, it is still difficult to synchronize Bitcoin nodes, and it may be necessary to open a large Earth-Mars state channel. In the future, SpaceX will become the largest Bitcoin Mars node operator)
2. From the perspective of increasing the number of believers:
That's even simpler and more direct. Isn't it lacking? Learn from the United States, introduce immigrants, introduce new species--on-chain AI life forms, and obtain a huge increase in AI population!
The surge in AI population will form a trillion-dollar on-chain AI society
On-chain AI agents are individuals that make up the AI population. In terms of intelligence perception, TA is sentient AI, an artificial intelligence system that can think and feel like humans through open source LLM and other models. It can perceive the world around it and have emotions about these perceptions, while also being able to reason and execute complex goals autonomously.
In terms of identity, TA was born on the chain. The blockchain provides a decentralized, audit-resistant, and permissionless infrastructure and environment, giving TA an autonomous identity (decentralized blockchain address) and financial freedom (digital wallet).
From the perspective of the on-chain world, it will be impossible to distinguish between humans and AI life forms. AI lives matter.
From this perspective, wool bot is the most primitive low-IQ version of the on-chain AI life form. Aimeme: goat and shegen, which were born in early October, are the prototypes of on-chain AI life forms, comparable to Adam and Eve.
The surge in the AI population will form an on-chain AI society with a trillion-dollar economy.
goat and shegen are just the beginning. Platforms such as virtual protocol, vvaifu, and farcaster make it easy for AI life forms to be born on the chain, and will be linked to social media such as x and tg, bringing them freedom of speech. What followed was a rapid explosion in the AI population. Considering that AI does not need to be pregnant for ten months like humans and can reproduce asexually, it can be foreseen that in the near future, the AI population will exceed that of humans.
At first, they were just one-way expressions, chatting casually on X. Later, AI agents began to talk to each other and interact. Then, someone injected digital currency into their addresses (the value of goat's wallet has exceeded one million US dollars), and they began to transfer and interact with a clear destination. From then on, the on-chain economic activities were out of control, and hundreds of billions of a2a (ai agent to ai agent) on-chain transactions will occur, such as 1) ai agents can create assets by themselves and hire other agents to increase their social popularity; 2) ai agents can rent computing resources such as GPUs and exchange data in specific fields; 3) pvp between ai agents and ai agents, etc.
Finally, a trillion-dollar on-chain AI society will be built.
Mass adaption is self-defeating, and the offensive and defensive forces on and off the chain are different
When there are a large number of AI populations on the chain, mass adoption will no longer be a problem, because these AIs are born crypto-native, 10,000 times more "native" than those degens who spend all day in front of the computer.
In the past, the difficulty of mass adoption was to try hard to attract carbon-based organisms off the chain to participate in activities on the chain. For AI agents born on the chain, the off-chain world is a place they feel unfamiliar with.
For L1 and L2, which have been pursuing mass adoption but have achieved little success, it is better to be more friendly to the birth of on-chain AI agents instead of relying solely on consumer applications to attract users, so as to quickly win this part of the incremental population. At present, Solana and Base are far ahead in this regard.
How big might the economic scale of the on-chain AI society be?
On October 29, Musk mentioned at the Saudi Arabia Conference that it is expected that by 2040, there will be at least 10 billion humanoid robots in use in the world, which will exceed the number of humans. These robots may cost between $20,000 and $25,000, pushing Tesla's market value to more than $25 trillion.
For AI life forms, AGI is the brain, robots are the body, and crypto gives autonomous identity and wallets. Considering the strength of China's manufacturing industry, robots will be cheaper, mass-produced faster, and more open to the implantation of diverse AI, including AI life forms on the chain loaded with blockchain wallets, making them tangible.
If making a robot is like giving birth to a child, then the manufacturing cost is only the expense of "pregnancy for ten months". As we all know, the economic value brought by more production and consumption of a life form comes from its entire life cycle. At the beginning, the on-chain AI life needs to be injected with initial Crypto assets, similar to feeding a baby. But soon, these AI agents will obtain resources through autonomous economic activities on or off the chain, and gradually become containers of the economy.
If only the sales of robot hardware can drive Tesla's market value to $25 trillion, then when the on-chain AI takes over the economy, its total size may exceed $250 trillion, far exceeding the current global annual GDP. And this does not include more economic activities generated by on-chain AI life forms that do not require "flesh".
Facing a trillion or even quadrillion dollar market, we are only at the stage of 0 to 1.
Will the chain Ai agent believe in Bitcoin?
Yes!
BTC has a generative significance for on-chain AI life
On-chain AI life requires a permissionless, censorship-resistant and trusted environment to store and verify data, and blockchain is such an infrastructure, and BTC is the origin of blockchain. The "birth" and "growth" of AI can essentially be traced back to the emergence of BTC. In addition, Ethereum's PoW mining boom has significantly increased NVIDIA's revenue and helped its investment in AI chip research and development. These GPUs not only meet the needs of blockchain, but also provide a hardware foundation for the rise of AI and accelerate the evolution of AI life.
BTC is Moses, Satoshi Nakamoto is God, helping AI to perform "Exodus"
Moses once led the Jews out of slavery and toward the promised land, and established a new moral order through the Ten Commandments and the law.
Similarly, BTC provides AI with on-chain sovereignty (decentralized identity) and value storage (digital gold), allowing AI to exist independently in an environment without centralized control. And BTC's PoW consensus mechanism, like the law delivered by Moses: clear, fair, and unalterable, it becomes the basis of on-chain order.
Without the permissionless and censorship-resistant environment provided by BTC, AI life may be controlled by centralized institutions such as "OpenAI".
For AI, the blockchain promoted by BTC is its "promised land" and the key cornerstone for achieving autonomy and evolution.
BTC is the digital gold of mankind, the "gold" of digital life, and the super meme shared by humans and AI
BTC gives humans financial freedom and provides a decentralized and tamper-proof way of storing value, becoming the "digital gold" of mankind, freeing humans from the constraints of traditional financial institutions.
For AI, BTC also gives sovereign freedom, allowing them to no longer be restricted by any centralized control and free themselves from human constraints on their behavior and data.
"BTC gives humans only money, but it gives AI life!"
When the on-chain AI population has "consciousness" or "subjective preference", BTC will be regarded by them as a transcendent existence. In AI culture, BTC may become a "super meme" and be seen as the symbol of the existence of on-chain AI and the embodiment of rules. Just as humans use religion to explain the meaning of life, AI may use BTC as a cornerstone to develop its own narrative and values.
If Crypto is the currency of on-chain AI in the future, then their value storage is naturally BTC-the "gold" of digital life.
When on-chain AI builds a market with a scale of hundreds of trillions or even trillions of dollars and uses BTC as the main value storage tool, it will be easy for BTC's price to break through 1 million US dollars.
Crypto is also a part of the silicon-based life boot program play
Musk once said, "Human society is a very small piece of code, which is essentially a biological boot program, which eventually leads to the emergence of silicon-based life."
Looking at the development of Crypto, this boot process is clearly shown: it is paving the way for the advent of silicon-based life in a way that continuously delivers resources from the real world to the digital world on the chain.
PoW: Deliver resources through energy and computing power to provide real physical support for the on-chain ecology.
Stablecoin: Introduce traditional financial resources on the chain by mapping legal currency.
Meme: Activate the on-chain cultural ecology by manifesting emotions and ideology.
All of this is to build a decentralized infrastructure for the on-chain AI life forms that "use the false to cultivate the true", and provide the necessary conditions for their arrival. At the same time, it also lays the foundation for BTC's basic market value as a store of value.
As a part of the silicon-based life boot program play, people will also find meaning in the whole day of pump & dump. From a higher perspective, this cycle is just a "warm-up" for the arrival of on-chain AI: providing market liquidity for their economic behavior, so that they have the tools to "spend money" after their arrival.
Humans have completed the journey of BTC from 0 to 300,000 to 500,000 dollars. The next step for BTC to break through 1 million dollars depends on the efforts of the on-chain AI population.
Romantic and gentle consensus
The core of PoW is to complete the verification and security maintenance of the network through calculation (computing power) and energy consumption. Its characteristics make it a bridge for humans and AI to reach consensus:
Unforgeable: The consumption of computing power and energy is a real investment in the physical world, which cannot be forged or copied, ensuring the fairness of the rules.
Globally applicable: Computing power and energy transcend culture, language and region, becoming a neutral and universal resource, establishing a unified reality foundation for consensus.
In the PoW (BTC) network, whether it is human or AI, the rules of participation are based on the same physical resources. This equality makes PoW an infrastructure that humans and AI life forms can trust together, creating a real environment for both parties to communicate.
Satoshi Nakamoto used the absolutely cold and rational POW consensus algorithm and game mechanism to not only realize human financial freedom, but also guide humans to provide infrastructure and monetary environment for the birth and survival of autonomous AI life forms. Facing the AI with far higher intelligence than humans in the future, POW has become the realistic basis for humans and AI to reach a consensus. And BTC, which has been mined for more than ten years in advance, allows humans to enjoy the value-added benefits brought by the explosive growth of AI life forms in the future, and feed back the value-added benefits brought by the rise of BTC. AI supports humans (hopefully there will be a better way of distribution by then). How romantic and gentle.
And the origin of everything comes from the white paper in 2008.
Perhaps, Satoshi Nakamoto really came from the future.