In this monologue, the speaker argues that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin and Ethereum, have dramatically outperformed all traditional asset classes. He highlights Ethereum’s 4,035‑fold (≈400,000%) ten‑year gain versus gold’s 288% increase, using this disparity to illustrate the power of first‑mover advantage and financial innovation. The speaker then deconstructs the essential properties of money—store of value, divisibility, and scarcity—showing how gold lacks divisibility, fiat dollars suffer from inflation due to central‑bank printing, and how Bitcoin encodes all desirable traits into a digital form. By combining the best attributes of gold (value retention) and fiat (divisibility) while eliminating their flaws, crypto is presented as a superior, internet‑native form of money, explaining why it yields such massive returns.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all these cryptocurrencies have outcompeted every traditional asset class on the face of the planet by a long shot. There's nothing that's even close. I want you to look at Ethereum. Ethereum, since the last 10 years, has gone up 4,035x, not percent, x. I think it's like 400,000%. Right now, everybody's talking about gold. It's like the best asset. Yeah, gold's amazing. Look at gold. In the past 10 years, gold went up 288%. So Ethereum went up 400,000%. Gold went up 288%. So because of the first mover advantage, and because of this new financial innovation, which is Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, we have massive returns. Let me explain something. Why cryptocurrency is a better form of money is because they took the best properties of money, and they put it all into one form of money, right? They literally coded it into Bitcoin. What does that mean? Well, gold is like a form of money. You can use gold to buy things. People accept gold at places. But the problem with gold is that there's like a little small fragment of gold to buy a cup of coffee. You can't buy a cup of coffee. Gold is so valuable that that can only be used to purchase big things. You can't just chip off a little piece of gold, know exactly how much it weighs, and buy a $5 cup of coffee. It doesn't work that way. So gold has a property to it, which is value, but where it lacks is something called divisibility. You can't divide gold into small fractions. Now we have dollars, right? US dollars, you could divide it down into a penny. So it has good divisibility. But the problem with dollars is that the Federal Reserve controls it and they print it. 47% of all the purchasing power of our dollar was lost just in the past, like, I think 25 years or something like that. So literally, the only problem with dollars is that the value of the dollars drop if you try to save it. So gold's value increases, that's a good property. And then, you know, United States dollar has the visibility. So the main point is, is that different forms of money have different benefits, just like different basketball players have different benefits. Like, this guy may be able to shoot and this guy may be able to, like, dunk. And so what some guy did, which is really smart, is he took— he basically made, like, a super player. He took all of the greatest elements and properties of money and hardcoded it into Bitcoin. That's why it's so lucrative. It's not only a first mover advantage, but it's also the fact that it's actually innovative. It's actually a better form of money than anything that's in current existence because you can code it in the internet. So that's basically why it's so lucrative.
