Look at this silver chart. Absolute insanity.

In under eight months, silver has tripled, ripping from the $28–$30 range in mid-2025 to over $100 this week, with prints as high as $103. That’s a 240%+ move driven by real fundamentals. Exploding industrial demand from solar, EVs, and electronics, persistent supply shortages, and a global rush into hard assets as confidence in fiat continues to erode.

Congrats to everyone who stacked silver early. Those gains are genuinely life changing.

But here’s where it gets interesting for crypto.

Moves like this in precious metals often mark the handover. Historically, metals lead when inflation fears rise and real assets wake up. Once they go parabolic, capital tends to rotate into the higher beta, asymmetric store of value.

Silver has utility, but that also caps its upside long term. Bitcoin doesn’t have that limitation. Absolute scarcity, immutability, and global network effects give BTC a very different ceiling.

We’ve seen this movie before. Metals run first. Then the real acceleration happens in digital gold.

With silver at triple digits and flashing stretched conditions, profit taking could be the spark that ignites Bitcoin’s next major leg higher.

Hard assets are on fire. 2026 is not playing around.