In the searing heat of Dubai—a city half illusion, half mirage—gentlemen and ladies of the TOKEN2049 congregation found themselves spellbound, for onto the dais strode Dan Morehead. He was neither an alchemist nor a humble goldsmith, but the CEO of Pantera Capital, and he looked out upon the assembled with the confidence of a man who’d misplaced his monocle in a revolution and didn’t care to look for it.
“I think digital gold is now overtaking old school gold.”
Ah, what a declaration! One almost expected thunder to rumble or gold coins to roll off the tables in protest. Morehead, in the manner of a surgeon who had long ago predicted the operation was doomed, seemed only vindicated by the present moment. “There is a transaction underway which, I confess, I have awaited for twelve years,” he remarked, perhaps picturing himself as a patient lover reunited at last with the capricious muse called Fate—or perhaps just with his favorite ledger.
“DAY2 TOKEN 2049 DUBAI: Digital gold is now overtaking old school gold.”
Pantera Capital’s luminary declaims: “The U.S. already owns 1% of all Bitcoin.”
And so begins the race—the kind one doesn’t wager upon, but simply hopes to finish with clean shoes.
Where once gold ETFs basked in the adoration of cautious bankers, now Bitcoin ETFs host a far livelier party, attracting billions more in search of fixed addresses and fewer pickaxes. Morehead, the voice of digital providence, sings the praise of Bitcoin’s predictable issuance; in contrast, one can only imagine the miners of gold, forever scratching the earth in search of ounces to fill someone’s musty vault. “Bitcoin! Issuance on a schedule! No guessing if your neighbor’s discovered a nugget the size of a potato,” he exclaimed, if only in spirit.
And when tariffs rise like a bad souffle—what else is left unscorched? Only stateless currencies: gold, digital gold, Bitcoin. All else sags like last week’s optimism.
The drama does not end there, for Morehead exposed a secret: the United States, in a twist befitting a penny novel, is lurking over a stash of Bitcoin that amounts to 1% of its global supply. China, plotting quietly across the chessboard, holds a similar sum. “An arms race is inescapable,” Morehead hinted, not quite twirling his mustache. “And this time, tanks will be replaced by wallets.”
As if to dig the knife deeper into old gold’s frail side, Morehead lampooned the outmoded notion of wealth in golden pyramids, stating (with the fatal accuracy of a Russian satirist): America has “eleven million years of workers’ wages buried in a stone pyramid in Kentucky.” A methodology, one surmises, about as modern as sending messages by carrier goose.
By the waning hours, with economic woes bubbling in the distance and tariffs clustering like storm clouds, Morehead could only repeat what was obvious to anyone who’d wandered past a digital ticker: when the world is in turmoil, only the stateless survive—gold, Bitcoin, and everything else scurries for cover. Bitcoin, he observed, has ceased trying to be gold’s shadow. It now casts its own.
And somewhere, an old prospector sighs, realizing that even the Gold Rush has been hacked.
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