🪙 Gold vs Bitcoin: Properties of Money

💡 Property 🟡 Gold ₿ Bitcoin
Durability Extremely durable; doesn’t corrode Digital and immutable; cannot degrade
Portability Heavy and bulky to transport Highly portable; global transfer in seconds
Divisibility Limited; hard to divide precisely Infinitely divisible (up to 100M satoshis)
Uniformity Requires assay to verify purity Every Bitcoin is identical and verifiable
Limited Supply Scarce, but supply increases slowly Fixed supply: 21 million BTC max
Acceptability Widely accepted for centuries Growing adoption; increasingly accepted
Verifiability Requires physical testing Instantly verifiable via blockchain
Storage Requires secure physical vaults Stored digitally in wallets (hot/cold)
Counterfeit Risk Possible with fake alloys Impossible due to cryptographic security
Transport Cost High (insurance, logistics) Low (internet-based transfer)
Inflation Resistance Strong, but not perfectly capped Perfectly capped; deflationary

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