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What everybody ought to know about gold and Bitcoin: Part 1: Gold as a product (venturegrit.substack.com)
1 points by venturegrit 2322 days ago
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Gold is shiny and pretty and has some useful physical properties. Bitcoin has no useful properties, but some people want it anyways. Both are hoarded, and are enviromentally destructive to get.

What else do you really need to know?

Both are scarce and easy to pass on.