#数字货币市场回升 Will "electric" become the next global hard currency?

Recently, I came across a statement by Musk at the shareholders' meeting, which was quite interesting. He directly proposed a bold idea: there may be no traditional currency in the future, and the unit of measurement might just become watts. His exact words were - "Energy is the real hard currency."

Sounds mysterious? But if you think about it carefully, it is indeed not baseless.

The cryptocurrency market has expanded quite rapidly over the past two years. By the third quarter of 2025, the total market value has soared from 3.46 trillion USD to 3.85 trillion. Musk believes that the competitive logic of digital assets may change in the future—not in terms of who is scarcer, but in terms of who can produce more energy.

If this theory holds, the rules of the game will be completely rewritten. Countries with low electricity generation costs will directly become "mint factories", and companies that master efficient electricity usage technology will essentially hold the power to print money. Imagine this scene: when you buy water at a convenience store, instead of asking the clerk "how much does it cost", you ask "how many kilowatt-hours is this bottle of water worth".

Some people say this is quite similar to Bitcoin. The proof-of-work mechanism of $BTC essentially consumes computing power, and behind that computing power is electricity. Musk simply took this logic further—why not directly write energy proof into the currency protocol.

Of course, there are also many doubts.

Opponents raised a bunch of questions: electricity price fluctuations are even more exaggerated than cryptocurrency prices, how to ensure stability? The environmental costs of coal, hydropower, and photovoltaic energy are completely different, how to unify pricing? Energy storage losses are significant, how to solve this fundamental issue?

But supporters say that what Musk really wants to express is not simply replacing money with electricity, but rather using energy as the underlying logic for value anchoring.

If this idea really comes to fruition, those regions with access to cheap electricity resources will surely wake up smiling. Coincidentally, Musk happens to hold cards with Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX. Is this a strategic layout in advance, or just a pie-in-the-sky hype?

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