If Monero becomes the black-market gold: Market cap: $1T+ Price: $50,000/XMR This happens only when CBDCs dominate, cash vanishes, privacy becomes luxury, states push surveillance to the maximum, and economic pressure forces people into off-grid capital. This is not absurd, it’s the rational endgame of global digital authoritarianism. The thing is that Monero is far more scarce than gold, far easier to hold than gold, far easier to move than gold, far less percentage of supply produced each year than gold and you’re not gonna mine or find Monero in outer space. It is 1000 times greater than “Bitcoin is digital gold” narrative and on top of that, you can use with ease and not worry about “oh is my wallet linked to this”, or “oh did I report this transaction”. With Bitcoin, you absolutely do. If you hold Bitcoin over Monero, you are BRAINDEAD. If you hold gold over Monero, you are smart but you are not that smart. Bitcoin is just a shitcoin and a NFT compared to Monero.