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Those are great.
Visual Capitalist also has a great series on gold. It's now 10 years since it was published so some of the numbers are off but still lots of intersting info!
They also have a newer post, from 2017.
But even that, from just five years ago. hasn't aged well:
  1. As a gold cube, the entire value of the Bitcoin market [$14.7B] would fit in a hallway.
Bitcoin is today $572B, so keeping the 2017 GLD/USD price, because I'm too lazy to look it up, bitcoin's value would equate to 40 of those cubes.
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Norway, a rich country, doesn't have gold reserves.
They only kept a few historical coins, and decided to sell everything else because:
The return on gold has historically been low.
Here you can see the world production of gold. It's clearly not scarce at all.
And Aker, a big company in Norway, created Seetee, a company focused 100% in Bitcoin. Here's the Shareholder's letter from the CEO of Seetee, it's a great read, it describes how he personally discovered Bitcoin and how he's trying to learn as much as possible and move towards the future with Bitcoin.
Today we announced that Aker has established Seetee, a new com- pany that will invest in exciting projects and companies throughout the Bitcoin ecosystem while keeping all of its liquid investable assets in bit- coin. The new company has a capitalisation of NOK 500 million, an amount we aim to increase significantly over time as we gain experience and identify exciting opportunities
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Gold could fall like a rock any day imo due to asteroid mining.
And that's easier than you might think. All the gold mined on earth fits in a cube with 22m sides - any asteroid could easily double the supply. And the mining process would just be stiring an asteroid slowly to fall into the desert.
But it gets even easier than that: Markets are forward pricing. All it takes is Elon tweeting that he wants to do it and markets will price that in.
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Gold is just doing what its supposed to do hold its value where as bitcoin is a vessel for bitcoin to traverse both time and space
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Well said, comrade
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