CZ: National reserves + AI, $1 million Bitcoin coming soon! Today at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong, the host asked CZ: In this so-called Bitcoin century, what will happen in the next 25 years? CZ’s immediate response was that Bitcoin will hit $1 million—and it won’t even take 25 years. He even predicted that Bitcoin will eventually become more important than gold, with the gap potentially narrowing rapidly in the next bull market. But after watching the full half-hour conversation, the price prediction was actually the least important part. What CZ is really betting on are two new sources of demand that barely existed before: Governments starting to include Bitcoin in their strategic reserves, and pension funds and retirement funds entering the space; On the other side, billions of AI agents beginning to trade, purchase services, and utilize computing power—they naturally need a form of money that machines can use directly. This part is even more intriguing. CZ revealed that he has already discussed token issuance with several top AI companies. Because training models is just the first step—the truly staggering cost lies in computing power capital expenditure: According to him, a 1-gigawatt data center costs $30–50 billion, and some AI companies are planning for hundreds of gigawatts in the future, which could ultimately require trillions of dollars. This is where data center tokens come in: raising funds to build computing power, with tokens redeemable for computing resources, subscription payments, and AI services. AI companies themselves might even become new issuers of crypto assets. So CZ’s vision for the next decade is actually quite comprehensive: Humans will treat Bitcoin as a reserve asset, AI will use stablecoins and cryptocurrencies for transactions, stocks, real estate, and minerals will continue to be tokenized, and governments will compete for control over regulation, stablecoins, and national-level crypto reserves. If we really reach this point, $1 million Bitcoin won’t be the starting point of the story—it’ll look more like the result of the entire financial system adopting crypto as its infrastructure.