[UncleEntity]

Gold is kind of useful aside from its human invented use as a store of value and solving the coincidence of wants problem.

[selimthegrim]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816193

[dubswithus]

I don't have any teeth filled with gold. It's not necessary unless you are Post Malone.

[astrange]

Gold is useful as a unit test of physics theories, since most of them until the modern day couldn’t explain why it’s yellow.

[dubswithus]

But not useful enough to justify the current price. And not a smart investment according to Warren Buffett.