[jbester]

Not sure I buy either of the metaphors. Silver has industrial, scientific, and commercial (i.e., jewelry) applications that create demand and use the commodity. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not. It's just used as a transitional currency.

[rikf]

It does have certain mathematical properties that make it rare. or at least harder and harder to produce as times goes on that leads to scarcity. And as we all know price = demand / supply