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Bitcoin’s hidden scoreboard: the currency war no one knows they’re fighting

Bitcoin’s hidden scoreboard: the currency war no one knows they’re fighting

CryptoSlateCryptoSlate2025/10/05 07:00
By:Christina Comben

Bitcoin smashing all-time highs above $125,000 isn’t just another headline. It’s the scoreboard in an invisible currency war few people even realize they’re losing. The system feels “off” for a reason. Wall Street’s still counting in melting dollars, politicians preach prosperity, and legacy media tracks asset booms. But flip the yardstick, measure traditional wealth in Bitcoin, and the gold-plated illusion cracks.

The shifting denominator: illusions in USD

Scan the markets and it’s wealth everywhere, from stocks to real estate. The party looks like it’s raging, if you’re still thinking in dollar terms. But zoom out and switch units: the performance everyone’s boasting about suddenly looks more like a last gasp than a victory lap.

Gold’s up 45% year-to-date, just clocking $3,900/oz. Sounds bullish, right? Except when you price U.S. homes or the S&P 500 in gold, you get flat (sometimes negative) returns. It’s the same old story: debase the currency and asset prices levitate, but real wealth stagnates when measured against real collateral.

In Bitcoin terms: catastrophic real losses

But the real nightmare starts when you use Bitcoin, the asset hitting new highs and behaving more like digital gold by the day. Median U.S. home prices, so-called “safe” real estate, have gone from 9–10 BTC in 2021 to under 4 BTC now.

Gold itself? Over five years, Bitcoin is up 952%, gold up just 104%. That’s before you throw stocks and homes into the mix. Catastrophic real losses. The old world’s assets melt into irrelevance, and wallets measured in BTC start to look like winning lottery tickets.

Not just the debasement trade; it’s a ledger of collapse

Let’s be real. The “risk asset” meme about Bitcoin is pure coping. Wall Street boxes BTC next to tech stocks for narrative comfort, but its price action screams reserve ledger, marking down everything else post-2020. If Bitcoin keeps monetizing, today’s charts, stocks, property, and gold all become historical ledgers of things marked down for revaluation.

As macro and crypto analyst SightBringer points out on X, this is what pre-hyperinflationary and regime-shift history always looks like:

“This is the same signature that marked every pre-hyperinflationary or currency regime shift in history: when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing.”

Wages lag, debt explodes, policy spins, media still speaking USD. On the ground, it’s the unit-of-account decaying faster than anyone can keep up with, and the only honest scoreboard is marked in BTC.

The final phase: the carry trade’s last stand

America’s imperial carry trade is running on fumes: pull in global capital, inflate asset prices at home, and export the risk. Gold? Stagnant. Property? Collapsing in BTC. The polite commentary is done, and almost no one is positioned properly. As SightBringer affirms:

“This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their ‘returns’ in the wrong yardstick.”

Bitcoin isn’t just rising. It’s exposing the silent currency war. The dollar dying doesn’t make Bitcoin win, but the real losers are still cheering from inside the melting ice cube.

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