bitcoinwell on Nostr: You can print a dollar. You cannot print a kilowatt. Every Bitcoin that exists is ...

You can print a dollar. You cannot print a kilowatt.

Every Bitcoin that exists is backed by real energy already spent. Work that actually happened. Electricity that was actually burned to secure the network. You can't fake it, fast-talk it, or vote more of it into existence.

That's the quiet reason Bitcoin is different from every currency before it. Fiat is created by decree. Bitcoin is created by proof. One costs a keystroke. The other costs the one thing no government can conjure from thin air: real work in the physical world.

Sound money was always money that cost something to make. We just forgot what that felt like.