Ben Simpson (YouTube) gives a short, informal explainer arguing Bitcoin’s price is "mathematically programmed" to rise while fiat (paper) money is programmed to fall. He outlines a quick history of money (barter → gold → fiat), attributes fiat depreciation to money printing (Bretton Woods shift), and contrasts that with Bitcoin’s fixed 21-million supply, current circulation (~19.9M), multi-year halving that slows issuance, and consequent deflationary pressure. He states the video’s view that these mechanics drive capital into Bitcoin and cites a current price claim (US$115,000) and a personal prediction (US$1,000,000).
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Are you too late for bitcoin? No. I'm going to explain why Bitcoin is mathematically programmed to go up and why the dollars in your pocket are programmed to go down. Alright? If we go right back to the starting days of the world, the caveman days, we used to use a barter system, alright? If I had a goat, I could swap it for a cow, all right? Then they realized it's hard to chop a cow in half to split up between your friends. It then went to a gold backed system, alright? Gold was melted into coins and distributed. Then they realized that's super hard. So let's use a paperback system, which is what we have right now, the fiat system. Fiat is just paper money that we use to represent what the gold was in the bank. All right? So you had $10 a go to the bank, you have a $10 note, you could swap it. Then they realized, let's get rid of that. That was called the Bretton woods system. Brenton woods was basically like, let's get rid of the gold and let's just print more cash. So what happens when you print more cash is cash when printed with normal demand and supply, when it goes more cash in the economy, it goes down. The value of cash goes down because there's more of it. Where bitcoin there is only 21 million that will ever be created. It's limited supply. Right now there's 19.9 million bitcoin in circulation. That final 1.1 million will take about 100 years into creation because the amount that's created halves every four years. So you get deflationary, all right? Which means there's limited supply. When you've got more cash needs to find its home, it goes into bitcoin and there's less of it. Supply and demand, economic state goes up. It's mathematically programmed for Bitcoin to go up. That is why right now it's worth US$115,000. It was only worth a few thousand dollars not that long ago. It started off at zero dollars and I believe it's going to a million dollars one day.
