Ref Central Banks accumulating gold.
Couple of reasons
- US sanctions seizure
- US federal reserve openly stating they will pay︄ their debts via debasement
- can’t get their hands on $ due to low velocity︅ (last time it (reserve currency) was this low 5 empires ceased to exist.
Now on︆ the gold subject - gold is rising nominally - but priced against debasement it looses︇ 4% per annum mapped back to 2013.
Bitcoin on the other hand can’t be seized,︈ is portable (cheaply), is verifiable, fixed supply, deep and growing international liquidity.
Lastly its core︉ cost is price of producing - ergo electrical cost.
Energy costs can’t be debased like︊ say gold indirectly by hiring people and debasement and stagnant salaries keeps the cost of︋ gold from ground to market cheap, ie thousands of mini slice reductions some micro in︌ the cost of production.
In addition there’s potentially infinite amounts of Gold that can be︍ extracted from the ground, oceans and space - price wise where they can be profitable︎ based on technology advancements and non-inflation proof salaries driving costs down.
Whereas Bitcoin requires pure️ energy to produce and pure energy to transact.
Government's can’t debase energy costs therefore Bitcoin is pure inflation proof from that perspective.
Bitcoin is also technology + money + digital which in the era is what makes it so attractive couple in verifiable - and everything else it’s the purest form of money out there that has actual stickiness.
Ethereum however is elastic - inflationary and deflationary akin to how central banks tighten and loosen - it tightens during booms and loosens during busts - it also pays a yield like a bond/coupon and has all of the benefits of Bitcoin but with more.
Its downside is transactional fees but that can be offset with changes and structuring retaining ETH as the final settlement layer, and secondary side chains or similar as the active layers.︀