[kyuudou]

> And you can't eat gold. It's as fiat as anything else.

It's a good way of inter-generational wealth storage still. Also it's useful along with a basket of currencies to diversify with especially in countries with high inflation or value volatility e.g. Venezuela. It's highly regarded in 2 of the most populated countries in the world (India and China) and that is not apt to change any time soon.

Sure, in a full grid-down situation it's useless and "junk silver" would be more useful as a temporary currency but that is a slim possibility.