【Gold Cannot Prove Itself to Be Gold】

Yesterday in Dubai, @CZ showed a gold bar to Peter Schiff.

CZ only asked one question: "Is this real?"

Schiff's response was: "I don't know."

The London Bullion Market Association confirms that there is only one way to 100% accurately identify gold: the fire assay method. It must be melted down and destroyed to prove its authenticity.

However, Bitcoin can self-verify in seconds. No experts, no laboratories, and it won't be destroyed. This is a public ledger protected by mathematical principles, auditable simultaneously by 300 million people from anywhere in the world.

For five thousand years, the scarcity of gold has been the basis of its value. But if its authenticity cannot be proven, scarcity is meaningless.

There is another number that no one mentions:

Gold counterfeiting affects 5% to 10% of the global physical gold market. Every vault, every gold bar, and every transaction relies on trust.

Bitcoin does not require trust in anyone.

Market value of gold: $29 trillion, built on "trust me."

Market value of Bitcoin: $1.8 trillion, built on "self-verification."

When the world's most famous gold proponents cannot personally verify the authenticity of gold, the argument is self-evident.

Physical assets that cannot prove their existence will have a currency premium lower than digital assets that can prove their existence every ten minutes, every block, forever.

The question is no longer "Is Bitcoin real money?"

The question is: "Has gold ever been verifiable money?"

Pay close attention to institutional fund flows. Reallocation has already begun.

What you saw yesterday was not a debate.

It was a funeral.