Bitcoin's Next Milestone: The Race to Gold Parity

Just as $100,000 was a powerful psychological magnet during the 2021 bull market, the gold parity target is now becoming the new focal point for BTC’s investors and analysts.

This target isn't merely arbitrary, it represents Bitcoin achieving equal status with humanity's oldest store of value.

Currently, gold's market capitalization stands at approximately $17.8 trillion. Given its fixed supply of 21 million coins, for Bitcoin to achieve parity with gold, each BTC would need to reach between $800,000 and $1,000,000, and that could happen within the next decade, given the favorable economic and market dynamics.

Why Gold Parity Matters

The significance of Bitcoin reaching gold parity extends beyond just numbers:

• Legitimacy: Mainstream and institutional adoption, along with the growing consensus on BTC as the hardest store of value, are expected to continue, much like the approach the US government is probably to maintain in the coming years. This is also supported by digital resilience, where physical assets are moving nowadays (in a tokenized way).

• BTC dethroning Gold: As Bitcoin gains wider adoption than gold, it marks a historic shift—detaching money from the state for the first time by decentralizing how a monetary system works, with global adoption.

• Path to hyperbiconization: The next frontier is Bitcoin becoming the world's default value system. Its level of liquidity, immediacy, security, and borderlessness far exceeds the characteristics of gold as a reserve currency. It also reduces costs compared to traditional systems like SWIFT or gold transfers, serving mainly as an inflation hedge.

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