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November 11, 2025

Computing Power: The Common Origin of Currency and AI Intelligence

Computing power is the “bronze” and “aluminum” of the 21st century — it is both the material of currency and the material of intelligence.

I. The Misunderstood Ideal of Satoshi Nakamoto

The ideal proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper was —

“One CPU, one vote.”

However, the real operating logic of Bitcoin has become —

“One nonce, one vote.”

In other words, BTC is not based on “general computing units” as the foundation of voting, but on “the number of hash attempts” as its competition logic.

This means BTC has achieved the monetization of computing power, but not the democratization of computational rights.

The true “one CPU one vote” — a computational democracy where everyone can participate equally — has not yet been realized.

II. From Nonce to Token: NVIDIA’s “Everything Can Be Computed”

NVIDIA’s concept of “Everything is Token” is essentially a vision for a unified interface of computing power. And the nonce itself is the earliest “computing power token” — a unit of proof born from energy computation.

Thus, we can naturally align Satoshi’s BTC with NVIDIA’s GPU architecture:

  • BTC monetizes computing power,
  • NVIDIA standardizes computing power.

When combined, computing power becomes both a medium of value (currency) and fuel for intelligence (AI). This is the new paradigm of “one GPU, one vote”: Distributed GPUs as nodes, tokens as the unified interface of computing power — forming a centerless, adaptive complex system.

This is precisely the research direction GEB.network has been pursuing:

The adaptive unification mechanism of AI and cryptocurrency.
III. Computing Power: The Twin Structure of Currency and Technology

Throughout history, every technological revolution has also been a monetary revolution:

  • Qin Dynasty: Bronze was both weapon technology and monetary metal.
  • Napoleonic Era: Aluminum was more valuable than gold, symbolizing the peak of metallurgical technology.
  • Our Era: Computing power has become the new “refining material” — both AI-izable and monetizable.

Therefore, it is no coincidence that NVIDIA and Bitcoin have become the two fastest-growing assets by market value in the past two decades.

They share the same underlying logic:

Computing power is the common language of value and intelligence.

As of today, their combined market value is close to $10 trillion — not merely a capital phenomenon, but a computational phenomenon of civilizational evolution.

IV. Future Evolution: One Token, One Vote
  • Satoshi Nakamoto: Initiated the monetization of computing power (one CPU one vote)
  • Jensen Huang: Advanced the standardization of computing power (everything is token)
  • Elon Musk: Experiments with the automation of computing power applications (AI self-generating ecosystems)

These three narrative lines point to the same destination:

A centerless intelligent ecosystem where computing power is self-driven, self-generating, and self-evolving.

This is also the essential direction of GEB.network’s current “nonce interface” experiment: Extending the consensus mechanism of “one nonce (CPU) one vote” into the computing democracy of “one token (GPU) one vote.”

Thus, AI and cryptocurrency will, for the first time, close the loop within the same logical system — a decentralized adaptive system that uses computing power as its language, tokens as its oracle, and AI as its evolutionary drive.