Although alot of ZH'lers may be old tards - the old tards usually get it right, to a certain limit.
One of the reasons for that IMHO is, that many of them got burned at least once in the past and learned their lession the hard way. Painful but useful lessions of life.
Plus, trying to permanently (for some reason) put BitCoin into some competition with physical Gold is as unfair as it gets. Not even a fight, because the "rules" of the "fight" don't make any sense.
It's like putting Apple and Orange into the ring and try to force them to battle each other for some incomprehensible reason.
Despite both being tasty and healthy (
if served right and in good condition!) and both being useful for us humans - they're still different and need to be handled accordingly (I mean, try to just bite into a raw orange like you would do with an apple, you'll quickly remember some procedure needs to be followed before you can eat the Orange; may come out with a weird texture and bitter taste otherwise
).
The only thing that by now makes me wonder.... why always BTC vs Gold ?
At times it seems it's like someone (or some institution *cough* ) intentionally placed that seed of conflict into both camps as a well-devised false flag troll attack to divide two camps and ignite fights. Always smells a bit like divide & conquer to me....because at the end of the day, both camps should have more in common than most would think by now (judging the lenghty arguments) and there's practically no reason both assets shouldn't exist peacefully next to each other. Both have their purpose and uses, both definitely have potential.
Might be worth revisiting in that context, because it's not like they didn't plan to influence social media already years ago :
Federal Reserve plans to Identify key bloggers
Ben Bernanke Prepares To Eavesdrop On Everything Mentioning The Fed
( includes FED whitepaper Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution RFP, Request for Proposal (Event-6994, Sep 2011) ) 