Of all the critiques leveled against Bitcoin, perhaps the most resonant, and yet most fundamentally flawed, is the appeal to tradition: gold has been “proven by time.” This argument, steeped in the weight of millennia, posits that gold’s long-standing reign as a store of value is an unassailable virtue, while Bitcoin’s youth is a fatal vice. However, this perspective commits a critical error by isolating money from its context. It fails to recognize that what humans use as money is not determined by an immutable, pre-ordained law, but is inextricably shaped by the technological and communicational capabilities of the era. When we re-insert this crucial variable into the equation, a new narrative emerges: money evolves in lockstep with communication. From this vantage point, gold was the perfect money for a slow-moving world, fiat was an unstable intermediary for an accelerating one, and Bitcoin is the native monetary protocol for the age of light-speed information #bitcoin #nostr