Why Gold & Silver are Ultimate Stores of Value: Lindy's Law

Only time tells what can stand the test of time

Contents

1. Lindy’s Law as a Survival Heuristic

2. Buffett’s Moat and Lindy’s Filter

3. Monetary Assets as Coordination Technologies

4. Gold and the Lindy Curve

5. Fiat’s Shorter Lindy Tail—

6. Crypto and Engineered Durability

7. Tether’s Portfolio Signal

Lindy’s Law as a Survival Heuristic

Lindy’s Law¹ is not an investment framework in the conventional sense. It does not forecast returns, optimize portfolios, or estimate forward earnings. It is a survival heuristic. It is empirical rather than philosophical or theoretical. In its simplest form, Lindy’s Law observes that for certain non-perishable things such as technologies, institutions, and monetary goods, their expected remaining lifespan increases with the time they have already survived.