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Elon Musk: “Energy is the true currency.”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16

Published | Video Starts at 43:32

In this sort of far future of the culture books, they don't have money either, and everyone can pretty much have whatever they want. So there are still some fundamental currencies, if you will, that are physics based. So energy is. Energy is the true currency. This is why I said Bitcoin is based on energy. You can't legislate energy. You can't just, you know, pass a law and suddenly have a lot of energy. (43:32–43:35)

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Asserts that energy, rather than money, is the fundamental currency.

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