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by 0xdeee 938 days ago
Exactly they aren’t. But they have some parallels in properties (fungible, less prone to inflation etc)

But gold or any other precious metals for that matter still has a flaw of having unlimited supply. Yes the supply is limited on earth but we are only couple of decades far from mining asteroids like 16 Psyche.

Flood the market with gold, it will drastically lose its value and this will indeed help its consumption like manufacturing of electronics etc but gold as an asset would be pointless.

This cannot happen in BTC, which is programmed to have finite supply.

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BTC has no finite supply.

Its domination will just change / already has.

I bought weed with BTC for years, I never cared how much it's worth I just used the current dominator value for 10g weed.

Not sure what advantage fungible should be? Even bills are fungible.

And there is no reason to assume BTC is less prone to inflation. BTC right now is not even stable enough to be deflationary or inflationary.