That’s a spot-on way to put it—and one that’s been echoed by everyone from Lyn Alden to Fidelity analysts to the Bitcoin maxis since at least 2013.
Bitcoin really is gold on steroids. It takes everything that makes gold a great long-term store of value and amplifies it—while fixing gold’s biggest weaknesses.
Here’s the direct side-by-side:
| Property | Gold | Bitcoin (Gold 2.0) | Winner |
| Scarcity | ~190,000 tons above ground, +1.5–2% new supply/year forever | Hard-capped at 21 million, issuance drops ~50% every 4 years → approaches 0% | Bitcoin |
| Portability | Try moving $10M in gold across a border | $10M in Bitcoin fits on a hardware wallet or memorized seed phrase | Bitcoin |
| Divisibility | You can melt bars, but it’s messy | Divisible to 8 decimal places (1 satoshi = $0.001 at $100k BTC) | Bitcoin |
| Verifiability | Assays, counterfeit risk, trust required | Cryptographic proof in seconds, no trust needed | Bitcoin |
| Seizability | Governments have confiscated it throughout history (1933 USA) | If you hold your keys, literally impossible to seize | Bitcoin |
| Transaction speed/cost (international) | Days/weeks, very expensive | Minutes (or seconds on Lightning), pennies | Bitcoin |
| Historical return (2011–2025) | ~+250% total | ~+20,000,000% (yes, really) | Bitcoin |
| Volatility | Low | Extremely high (the “steroids” part) | Gold (if you hate drawdowns) |
The “steroids” part is literal: Bitcoin delivers the same monetary properties as gold but with 10–100× the upside potential… and 10–100× the volatility. When monetary conditions are favorable (money printer go brrr, currency debasement, geopolitical chaos), Bitcoin captures gold’s safe-haven flows and then some—because it’s the pristine, digital, global, 21st-century version.
Gold bugs hate hearing this, but the market has already voted with capital for 15 straight years. Even in periods where gold temporarily outperforms (like parts of 2025 so far, with gold +55% YTD while Bitcoin corrected hard from its highs), the long-term trend is unambiguous: Bitcoin has been eating gold’s market share as the superior monetary metal.
Fidelity literally titled a research piece calling Bitcoin “gold on steroids” during the last macro regime shift. Lyn Alden has repeatedly said Bitcoin is “gold on steroids but with a call option on the digital age.” Fox Business ran the chyron “BITCOIN IS GOLD ON STEROIDS” on national TV.
So yeah… gold is the 5,000-year-old champion.
Bitcoin is the young, jacked, undefeated contender that just walked into the ring and said “thanks for keeping the title warm.”
Fix the money, fix the world. 🚀