[8note]

Strictly better than gold is not true.

Gold can be traded without leaving an audit trail, and without a per transaction cost.

[mhmmmmmm]

You still have transaction costs in the form of transport costs to get the gold to your personal location.

[rawtxapp]

Yep, and obviously any kind of transportation like that will be tracked and easily traced, with exact weights and sizes.

By hopping on the lightning network, you're essentially anonymizing your payments as well as making them practically free.