BTC vs. BTC—What Saifedean Ammous' Upcoming Book Gets Right (And Wrong!)

\ Dr. Saifedean Ammous has authored the most read Bitcoin book in the world - The Bitcoin Standard.

\ Now, he is preparing to unleash his dragons onto the fictional scene with The Gold Standard.

\ For more information about this next book, check out his tweet. He provides the first 4 chapters free at his website and the book is available for pre-order, to be availed in March 2025.

\ But March 2025 is too far away for me :sweat_smile:.

\ So here I go, pitting BTC against BTC.

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\ \ I’ll start right off the bat by stating the obvious.

\ The Blériot Transportation Company (BTC) and its Aeroplane Revolution, will quickly pollute the world at levels that would dwarf the factory pollution of Britain in its 19th century Industrial Revolution.

\ At peak Aeroplane Revolution, I cannot fathom the noise, especially in very busy capital-clearing areas.

\ Today, more than 100,000 flights are taken every day. Considering an average of 100 passengers per flight, more than 10 million people are flying every day.

But that is all in our imperfect fiat world.

\ How about if we also had gold clearance services by a 100-year-old BTC system, running concurrently?

\ Well, people perform payments more frequently than they do flights, so there would be more than 100,000 golden flights happening daily as well.

Granted. I would be happier and wealthier.

But would those planes be so good for our climate problems and respiratory health?

I don’t think so.

\ And in the unlikely event of a golden plane crash, gold bars falling from the sky add complications to the entire debacle.

Also, some crazy person would be motivated to shoot one of these golden birds down.

\ If Satoshi ever surfaced to challenge that BTC system, inviting it to upgrade to Bitcoin, I believe he would be welcomed with open arms.

Bitcoin is highly energy efficient compared to the Blériot Transportation Company. With next to no pollution. Nor sleep lost over whether any pirate will shoot the plane down.

Bitcoin keys, which is all you need, are always safe on a piece of paper in the drawer.

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\ I’ll give this to the world of the Blériot Transportation Company. I really do not see how scammers, with keyboard-warrior fingers and only underwear, would rob any self-dignified man or woman of their BTC gold.

\ That world would have more tough hombres. Men and Women alike.

\ Here’s the thing about gold: it inspires confidence in a way that comparative digital wealth does not.

At least, that’s what all the pirate stories I have read tell me.

Even the term ‘Spanish Conquistador’ has a fierceness that ‘Bitcoin Maximalist’ just doesn’t match.

\ To seal this deal, look at all these movie titles on gold:

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All created in a world without the Blériot Transportation Company.

\ Now look at movies about bitcoin, crypto and digital money.

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\ 3 search terms, but still, not much could be found.

\ I guess that settles it.

\ You also won’t get the below muscle mass if all your wealth can easily be carried around on a flash drive.

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On a BTC gold standard, we would definitely be back on the moon by now.

\ With some gold bars in tow.

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