#比特币与黄金战争 How high can Bitcoin go? What can we see through the mirror of gold



Recently, many people in the community have been comparing Bitcoin and gold. It seems simple, but this comparison actually hides deep logic—two things are fundamentally different, yet both are regarded as "store of value tools." Using the market capacity of gold to reflect Bitcoin can help us pull our focus away from short-term price noise and see what truly matters.

What does the data say? Dividing the total market capitalization of $BTC by the current market size of gold, the resulting ratio is still far from its historical high. In other words, if Bitcoin truly evolves into a kind of "digital gold," the potential from a pure scale perspective is enormous. But there's a trap—more digits don't necessarily mean the price must rise; that kind of thinking is too naive.

Why is this comparison interesting? Two reasons. First, the gold market has accumulated over hundreds of years, forming an extremely deep liquidity pool, while Bitcoin, as a new asset class, has huge growth potential but also increased volatility. Second, the ratio itself does not predict— it can only tell you, under the extreme assumption of "becoming fully digital gold," where the upper limit might be. How many variables are still in the middle of the actual price movement?

Conversely, putting the two side by side is not meant to give you a specific price target. Instead, it offers a different perspective—to see the deepest rules of capital markets: scale determines capacity, liquidity determines long-term performance, and structural factors influence trends more than short-term fluctuations.

For true long-term participants, focusing on candlestick charts and counting numbers is less meaningful than spending time understanding these macro comparisons. $BTC
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PretendingSeriousvip
· 4h ago
The liquidity accumulated over hundreds of years of gold is indeed not something that BTC can catch up to in a year or two. But thinking about this logic from the opposite perspective is also interesting—why must BTC follow the old path of gold?
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CodeSmellHuntervip
· 5h ago
The status of gold for hundreds of years can't even be maintained, and you're expecting BTC to be explained just by comparison? This logic itself is a bit funny.
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MrRightClickvip
· 5h ago
Gold takes hundreds of years to accumulate, while BTC was achieved in ten years. This is the difference in the track, right? Liquidity is indeed a pitfall, but who says new assets must lose to old assets? Think about it from the other perspective.
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TokenomicsTinfoilHatvip
· 5h ago
The gold approach is already boring, and the term "digital gold" sounds nice but is it really practical? Suspense Can Bitcoin have a liquidity pool as deep as gold? Still a long way to go, that's the key Just because it's digital doesn't mean it will rise? People who think that have probably already lost a lot haha
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