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12 lines
2.3 KiB
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{
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"HubID": "5718",
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"Date": "01/19/2026",
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"HubTags": ["Future Map", "External Platform Posts"],
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"Contacts": ["contact1", "contact2"],
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"Companies": "",
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"File": "",
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"Image": "energy_currency.jpg",
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"Summary": "What is Elon talking about? Energy as currency? Here’s my simple take. Humanity has never had a “perfect” currency? But we may finally be able to build one. Every currency in history eventually fails. Fiat fails through debasement, as governments can’t stop spending. Gold and Bitcoin are supply-constrained. Neither can scale cleanly with real economic activity. Energy may be the missing answer. Everything in the modern economy ultimately resolves to energy. If energy is measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh) and used as the unit of account, supply can expand and contract naturally: more demand = more generation is built; too much supply = prices fall, investment slows. The tools already exist so we are not inventing new tech: blockchains for settlement; cryptography for security and privacy (including ZKPs); digital wallets for machines and people; revenue-grade energy measurement standards already used by utilities. The missing piece is simply connecting them into an open standard. How this could actually start (very practically): 1. start small, not ideological; 2. deploy in Texas, already one of the most innovative energy markets; 3. energy producers generate verified kWh; 4. A GPU cluster prices compute in kWh, but settles in U.S. dollars for now. 5. that same GPU cluster then resells AI inference priced in kWh to customers, again settling in dollars for now. At first, kWh is the unit of account, not the settlement currency. Money follows usage later.Companies like Base Power, which already coordinate distributed solar and batteries, are perfectly positioned to pilot something like this without changing their core business — just by publishing cryptographically verifiable energy data alongside what they already do. The idea is to not “launch a new currency.” It is simply to let energy become the economic truth, and currency emerges as a side effect. As AI, robots, and compute become the future of the economy — and all of them run on electricity — then a kWh-based monetary system may not be radical at all. It may be inevitable.",
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"Notes": ""
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}
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