This completely misses the point, despite the fact that there’s zero chance this is meaningfully true, imo If 50 million Americans own Bitcoin, it’s because 40 million of them own something with Bitcoin in it and they have no idea. But put that aside. Bitcoin only competes with gold in its first era, as a store of value. And gold’s market cap is $28 trillion, while Bitcoin’s is a little over $1 trillion. But you can’t transact in gold. You can’t pay for stuff easily with gold. You can’t zap your friends a little gold on Nostr. You can’t integrate gold payments with the @Breez_Tech SDK into your app in a couple of hours. Gold today only has one major use left, elemental scarcity and a history that anchors its trust. On the other hand, I do use Bitcoin everyday. Not just for savings, but to pay 7 people I work with in 3 different countries. Some which would be annoying, others that would be literally impossible with fiat. My business account is behind a simple multisig for higher protection. My long term savings is in a larger collaborative multisig where even family members participate in the ownership. I have much of my daily spending bitcoin on a decentralized, noncustodial payment network called lightning, and some in an alternative network called Spark, and some more in a different type of trust distribution called Liquid. Each has its benefits and trade offs, but all can be used easily and quickly. Bitcoin is a money. And not just a hard money that can be saved, but a modern money that can be used without borders, without capital controls, without permission, without credit, without days of waiting for every stupid thing to go through. I live in the future that I know we are headed toward. I am not naive and foolishly think that trust in new monetary goods will happen in a few years when historically the “fast ones” take 40+. Anyone who thinks it’s supposed to happen like iPhone adoption doesn’t understand what money is. But I also know that fiat can’t compete, because the experience of going back to banks after living on a bitcoin standard, is like the experience of having to write a check after getting used to your debit card. It feels like being transported back in time and being forced to use a fax machine with rotary buttons. And the infrastructure and capabilities of what we can and will build in a Bitcoin system has barely shown us 1% of what is possible today. Anyone who thinks Bitcoin is “over” or that it’s going to be “just another asset in the stock market,” have fundamentally misunderstood both what Bitcoin is, and what the critical problem of the past 100 years is that has thrown western society so horribly out of balance. We have a LONG way to go. And we will be looking at gold in the rear view mirror and still driving.