Hyperbitcoinization Won’t Be a Bang—It’ll Be a Fade to Black

For years, Bitcoiners and skeptics alike have debated the grand finale—the moment when the world abandons fiat currency and embraces Bitcoin in a single, earth-shattering event. It’s easy to imagine it like a Hollywood blockbuster: screens flicker with breaking news, markets convulse, and in a single day, the monetary world order flips on its head. But that’s the fantasy. The reality is likely to be far less cinematic. Hyperbitcoinization won’t arrive with a bang—it will creep in quietly, erasing fiat’s dominance until one day, almost no one remembers the moment it slipped away. The Myth of the Overnight Flip People love big moments because they give history a neat beginning and end. We point to 1929 for the Great Depression, 1989 for the fall of the Berlin Wall, or 2007 for the iPhone’s launch. It’s tempting to imagine Bitcoin’s rise happening the same way: a market panic, a collapse in confidence, and an instant global pivot. But true paradigm shifts rarely work like that. The intern...