I just saw the news from Rhythm Push that today marks the 17th anniversary of Bitcoin's birth.

Today, January 3rd,
exactly 17 years since Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block #0
on a small server in Helsinki, Finland.
I felt quite emotional when I saw this news.
Bitcoin has only been around for 17 years,
but this divine code
still needs many, many years to change humanity.

Each of us is the greatest beneficiary of this era.
Why does Bitcoin exist?

Let me explain a question to everyone.
If I tell you that the US dollar in your hands,
whether paper cash or digital in the bank,
has lost over 99% of its real purchasing power since 1971 when measured in gold,
would your first reaction be to think I’m scaring you?
Don’t rush to deny it—this is not an opinion, it’s arithmetic.
In 1971, U.S. President Nixon announced
the official decoupling of the dollar from gold.
That year, you could buy an ounce of gold for $42,
and today in 2026, the same ounce of gold costs around $4,500.
If you take the $42 from back then and carry it to today,
you can’t even buy 1% of an ounce of gold.
What does this mean?
It means that when measured in real money like gold,
the fiat currency we’ve been using for over 50 years
has essentially become worthless.
But you pay for this every day without much feeling.
This is the invisible inflation tax.
Many rational people say, “I didn’t buy gold in 1971,
I put my money into the S&P 500 and great companies, and I achieved financial freedom.”
Gold simply can’t outperform the stock market.
This question is very precise, but you only got half of it right.
Suppose in 1971 you invested $200, half in the U.S. stock market,
and half in gold. By 2026, the stock market investment would be around $30,000,
and the gold half would be about $10,000. Correct.
In a super long cycle, gold indeed can’t outperform top-tier human enterprises,
but the problem is—they are not the same tool.
Stocks are aggressive assets,
designed to grow wealth during peaceful times.
Gold’s role has never been to beat stocks.
It’s the fire insurance of the entire financial system.
Insurance is what helps you survive when the system fails.
You wouldn’t compare insurance returns to startup investments.
Applying the same logic to Bitcoin now,
the biggest buyers of Bitcoin are definitely not retail investors,
but central banks around the world.
Why are these people who control the global economy
collectively hoarding an asset that doesn’t pay interest?
The answer is only four words: de-dollarization.
We used gold before, now we use Bitcoin.
We’ve always wondered if there’s an asset
that is not dependent on any country or regime,
that no one can seize.
Humans have searched for 5,000 years
and found gold. The scarcity of gold is far more extreme than most believe.
Similarly, gold’s inconvenient portability also limits its transport.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, solves this problem precisely.
If gold is the king of physical scarcity,
then Bitcoin is the ruler of digital scarcity.
They are not enemies but allies.
They jointly oppose a fiat system designed for continuous devaluation.
Gold fights against real-world inflation,
while Bitcoin fights against digital-world inflation.
One relies on physical location,
the other on mathematical rules.
Finally, let’s return to the fundamental law of business growth:
all things tend from order to chaos.
If you don’t tidy your room, it becomes messy.
If you don’t manage your money, it shrinks.
And since 1971, the fiat system has been designed to steadily devalue.
In this system, simply holding fiat currency
is equivalent to accepting the gradual melting of wealth.
Bitcoin won’t make you rich overnight.
It doesn’t generate interest or miracles,
but it is definitely a value anchor.
Amid the waves of constant fiat turbulence,
it provides your wealth with a coordinate that won’t collapse with the times.
That’s why, in 2026,
in an era with far greater uncertainty than before,
both gold and Bitcoin will rise.
So, if a bottom is reached, going all-in on Bitcoin
will be one of the most important decisions of your life.
Unlimited deflation could push Bitcoin to $1 million in the future.
I forever believe
that by 2036, Bitcoin will be worth $1 million per coin,
and everyone will achieve financial freedom by then.