Inflation measures the euro against a basket of everyday goods. Pricing it against scarce assets — gold, with thousands of years as money, and Bitcoin, with a fixed supply of 21 million — gives a complementary view of the currency's value.
Gold (EUR per troy ounce) — the classic store of value. A rising euro price of gold means each euro commands less of it.
Bitcoin (EUR) — a fixed-supply digital asset, far more volatile, but a stark benchmark for a currency whose supply keeps growing.
How to read these charts
When the euro price of gold or Bitcoin rises, it is partly the asset moving and partly the euro losing ground. Neither is a like-for-like inflation measure — both are volatile and driven by their own demand — but a long, persistent climb is hard to separate from a currency that is being steadily diluted.
Prices are euro-denominated daily closes from a public market source, not an official EU statistic. We show them as context for the debasement story, not as a forecast.