[Fnoord]

Except in wartime during a huge recession, gold is still worth something because there's demand for it and it can be traded for fiat currency. Gold has that world-wide, century long track record, and history proves it does. Bitcoin has yet to survive recessions and wars. Thus far, it isn't even stable during boom.

As long as cryptocoins aren't accepted as much as fiat currency (and they're not even _remotely_ near 1:1), they'll be in lower demand during less glorious times. Practically nobody (less than now) will accept cryptocoins then because you can't use them to buy anything worthwhile. A man's gotta eat, and keep the chin above the tide.