31 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 May \ on: ZeroHedge will host a weird gold v. bitcoin debate today bitdevs
The world in which gold is superior to bitcoin is probably a world in which you and I are long dead.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 3 May
Gold is better than Bitcoin, at being shiny, yellow and having weight.
Bitcoin is better than Gold, at being digital.
Something can only be better than something else, in the context of a specific use case.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 May
Of course. The kind of future scenarios where gold functions better as money are the ones where technological civilization has completely collapsed. Those are also ones where any given person has likely died horribly before they ever got to spend their gold.
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