Chamath @ 00:25:50Inconclusive
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Over the long term (on the order of the next 50–100 years), Bitcoin will emerge as the dominant global inflation‑hedging asset, displacing gold, such that gold’s role as a primary rational economic insurance policy against inflation structurally declines from here.
at the beginning of the year, I said the breakout asset Was going to be Bitcoin. I think it looks like it's going to be the resounding inflation hedge asset for the next 50 or 100 years. So that die has been cast. I think you're seeing the last vestiges of people using gold as a rational economic insurance policy. But I think the future is specifically Bitcoin on that dimension.View on YouTube
Explanation
This prediction is explicitly about the long term ("for the next 50 or 100 years"), so as of November 30, 2025—barely a year after the statement—it is far too early to determine whether Bitcoin will:
- Persist as the dominant global inflation‑hedging asset for decades, and
- Structurally displace gold’s role as the primary rational economic insurance policy against inflation.
While we can currently observe that:
- Bitcoin has at times outperformed gold over shorter windows and is increasingly discussed as a macro or "digital gold" asset in financial media and institutional commentary.
- Gold still has a vastly larger total market value, is widely held by central banks and institutions, and remains the canonical inflation hedge in traditional finance and reserve management.
…none of this evidence is sufficient to validate or falsify a 50–100 year structural claim. Market leadership as an inflation hedge, central‑bank reserve behavior, regulatory treatment of Bitcoin, technological risks, and macro regimes will all evolve over many decades.
Because the prediction’s time horizon extends out to roughly 2074–2124, and we are only in 2025, the correct assessment is that it is too early to tell whether the prediction is ultimately right or wrong.