Part 2, The Technology We’re Ignoring
Digital Gold: Why Bitcoin Might Be the Greatest Missed Opportunity in Economic History
It still baffles me.
I’ll sit in meetings with incredibly bright people — leaders in their fields, successful entrepreneurs, people with the kind of influence that can shift markets — and the moment I mention Bitcoin or digital assets, it’s like I’ve started speaking another language. Their eyes glaze over. Their tone changes. The curiosity evaporates.
Because it’s not tangible. Because you can’t hold it in your hand. Because, let’s be honest, if you didn’t grow up with it, it must be a scam… right?
That’s the lie we’ve all been sold: that only the things you can physically hold carry value. Meanwhile, we all run around every day using bits of paper and digital IOUs that are literally backed by nothing but the word of the people who keep creating more of it. The same people who have put the entire planet on a drip of debt. And yet, somehow, that’s the thing we all trust.
Let me tell you what I started to see in 2013.
Bitcoin. £250 per coin This is when I first heard about this project and didn’t act. Not a whisper in the mainstream. No headlines. Just a quiet revolution being built beneath the surface. I didn’t fully understand it at first, but something about it clicked over time — a currency with a cap. A system that can’t be manipulated by central banks or politicians. It was wild. It was digital. And it made too much sense not to look deeper.
Fast forward to today: Bitcoin has peaked at over $100,000 per coin and is still widely misunderstood. Not because it’s not brilliant, but because it’s a threat to the people who benefit from confusion and control.
Here’s what makes Bitcoin revolutionary — and why we’re ignoring it at our own risk:
It’s scarce. There will only ever be 21 million coins. That’s it. No more. Ever.
It’s deflationary. Every four years, the new supply gets cut in half. Basic supply and demand tells you what happens next.
It’s borderless. No middlemen. No governments. Just you, your wallet, and your access to the network.
It’s trustless, yet more trustworthy. You don’t need to trust a person. You trust the code — which has never been hacked.
What we’re looking at here is the hardest form of money ever created. More secure than gold. More portable than cash. More transparent than any government-issued currency.
And yet most people still say: “But it’s just digital. It’s not real.”
As if the numbers on your online banking app are somehow more real. As if the promises from central banks — promises that keep getting broken — are somehow more reliable.
Here’s what I believe: Bitcoin isn’t just a currency. It’s a technology of trust. It’s the financial system version of the internet in the ’90s — mocked, misunderstood, and completely unstoppable once it hits mainstream adoption.
We are standing on the edge of a paradigm shift, and 95% of the world is still asleep to it.