What Is Real Money? Why Dollars Aren’t Savings & Gold Returns | Alan Hibbard

What is real money and why do so many people think they’re “saving” when they’re actually losing value? In this conversation, Wealthion’s Trey Reik sits down with Alan Hibbard from GoldSilver.com and creator of The Hidden Secrets of Value video series to explain the most misunderstood ideas in finance: the difference between saving vs investing, and money vs currency.

Alan argues that fiat currencies are built to move value efficiently, not to store it, and reframes wealth as stored human energy across time. He introduces a rare but powerful lens, entropy, to explain why some assets resist value decay better than others, and why gold’s lack of yield is not a flaw but the feature. The discussion also breaks down the monetary trilemma of security, decentralization, and scalability, why Bitcoin behaves more like digital gold than a day to day currency, and why Alan believes the world is already shifting toward a new monetary regime with gold likely to play an official role.

If you want to go deeper, Alan’s series The Hidden Secrets of Value expands on these ideas and more in six parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O80DT4PRH4

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