sms on Nostr: Alchemy flips the natural order: it turns something cheap (lead) into something ...

Alchemy flips the natural order: it turns something cheap (lead) into something expensive (gold).  Fiat money does the exact same  in a single keystroke…​it turns nothing into billions. That’s worse, because the new money silently steals buying power from everyone who already earned theirs.

Gold suffers under this “replication.” We can dig up more, mint more coins, or promise paper claims on gold that don’t exist. Bitcoin, by design, can’t be cloned or inflated: 21 million coins, full stop.

Anyone with a node can count every bitcoin in existence. You can’t do that with gold bars in vaults you’ll never see.

Bitcoin moves across the globe in minutes and settles finally.​ Gold needs armored trucks, or a trusted ledger that brings us back to paper promises.

Software eats the world; energy and computation secure the network. Productive people building tomorrow’s economy naturally prefer a money that lives natively in that same digital realm.

If alchemy shows how easy it is to debase gold, fiat shows how easily value can be stolen outright. Bitcoin closes that loophole once and for all. In 2025, for anyone creating real value with their work, stacking sats is no longer a speculation; it’s self defense for your time, talent, and future.