Despite gold is older than BTC, people that invested in gold and BTC will prefer BTC to store their money because they know how reliable BTC is to those that have the knowledge of the investment. But those that have no knowledge about BTC will not accept that BTC is favourable than gold, because they have spend many years in gold investment without having the knowledge of BTC investment.

There are few people that store their money in gold in my country, because they have not discover that BTC is the best to store their money without fear of loss in the future.

I am also a team of both assets. Bitcoin can be an option because its supply is limited, but its volatility is high. Gold is also good for stability. In essence, diversification is the key to protecting yourself from inflation. Both have their own advantages and both assets have their own characters so having both is the best.

But in my personal opinion, gold is not an investment instrument because Investment is something that can grow. Gold is just a hedge, for regular savings. If you want big profits, then invest in bitcoin. The investment instrument is not gold, but bitcoin. However, everyone has their own tastes and goals. If we like challenges and dare to take risks, Bitcoin can provide great benefits, even though the ups and downs are extreme. However, if you prefer something safe and more stable, gold is the choice. Having both will make you achieve freedom in the future.

I don't think it is that speculative in 2025.

It's been more than a decade of history already, Bitcoin has proven everyone that it is a reliable storage of value.

The network is as powerful as ever, increasing every time. It is the most secure network at the moment.

It's also more convenient than gold, and it is the only investment that you don't need to trust a third party.

Good luck getting gold stored overseas, anything can happen, and they might not even have it anymore when you want it.

Indeed. Times have changed. It is such that now people value intangible items more than anything else. The rise of worthless NFTs and digital currencies tells us exactly this. We will reach a point where physical stuff will no longer be appealing to everyday investors. Especially newer generations which are digitally-native.

So yeah, Gold will become history while Bitcoin will take its place as the world's largest store of value. When will this happen, is an excellent question. It could take from half a century to a full century before BTC gains the same level of trust as Gold worldwide. The cryptocurrency revolution is just getting started. A lot has been achieved within 16 years since Bitcoin's inception. But there's a long road ahead before BTC positions itself as Gold's successor. For what I know, volatility is still at large. The adoption of spot ETFs are the step in the right direction. I'm sure Bitcoin will surprise us in the future.

Even before Bitcoin existed there were countries that didn't buy into gold.

And I'm not talking about small countries with no money, one of them is Norway. They decided to get rod of pretty much all their gold reserves, and only kept a token amount of gold, based on historical reasons (war times).

They instead diversified their assets into many industries and have been doing great.

One big Norwegian company span off a company that only invests in Bitcoin for example

Bitcoin's growth is really impressive but don't forget one thing, the bigger Bitcoin gets, the slower its growth rate becomes. Bitcoin's market capitalization has grown from 0 to 1 trillion in just 10 years (2009-2021) , but then it took more than 4 years to grow from $1 trillion to $2 trillion (2021-2025). That suggests that getting to a $5 trillion or $10 trillion market cap would take 20 to 30 years or even longer and that would depend on people's needs.

Bitcoin is no longer capable of growing x5, x10 in a cycle like before, which is why I believe it will take decades for bitcoin to surpass gold.

I thought everyone already discussed this before and that its not like Germany are hodlers. Bitcoin was part of cashflow, it would have been sold and used as budget at whatever pricepoint. This isn't like Microstrategy case where they are able to have 1 guy gambling on volatility (but even Saylor admitted they might have to liquidate some if price goes even lower). This is a state that, if the people need the money, they are using funds on hand.

Bitcoin all the way. This is a new chapter in the history of human civilisation: technological advancements to a scale never seen before. No-one can live without their phones. The world is digitalised and has been for years now. The AI takeover isn't coming; it arrived before we could comprehend. And now what do we see? Those AI-generated videos on every social media platform we go on that are becoming increasingly harder to distinguish from actual videos. Humans relying on ChatGPT for everything. Robots already being used in houses worldwide. It is only going to become more dystopian with the coming years, and bitcoin is the only escape from that: actually having sovereignty over your wealth as opposed to waiting for the government to dictate what worthless money you will get paid in 3 months' time. What is the value of the dollar? Increasingly decreasing, especially against the value of gold. So let us eliminate all forms of cash and revert back to pre government-controlled central banks and paper monies. Humans have been using gold (or whatever of it they can find) since the dawn of time. If you've read Saifedean Ammous' 'The Bitcoin Standard', you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Gold has, up until this point, been the best store of value for humans for a plethora of reasons, the three main being it doesn't corrode, you basically cannot destroy it, and it is incredibly hard to obtain. But imagine transporting 1 million dollars worth of gold. I'd rather not. Now imagine 1 million dollars worth of bitcoin. oh. wait. we live in a digital world now. I can send $1 million at the touch of a fingertip. In a few minutes, the lucky person would have received said money, in bitcoins. You need to remember that, once again, gold has been around forever. Bitcoin is only 16 years old. That is an incredibly large comparison to make between the two. Especially considering that hardly any one actually uses solid gold as a medium of exchange. So, to answer your question... it already has.

But so far, the US has not passed any laws related to bitcoin, nor has any proposal been sent to Congress, it is all just rumors.

The Trump administration is considered the most bitcoin-friendly administration ever and if bitcoin act cannot be passed during his tenure. I don't think we have a chance with the Democrats back in the White House. It can be said that bitcoin act is still quite far away from us.


Does Bitcoin have the potential to overtake gold? Yes. But the question is when will that happen? For me, I'm not optimistic about that and if it happens, it won't happen in our generation. It would probably take hundreds of bitcoins to do that, surpassing gold is no easy task.

Bitcoin has a limited supply, yet it is very volatile and even though Bitcoin is becoming more expensive day by day, it creates a new ATH every four years and then drops more than 50% from that price. But in the case of gold, there is no supply limitation, gold is mined constantly, yet only the price of gold keeps increasing day by day, its price drops very little. So since gold can be mined unlimitedly and its price only keeps increasing day by day, Bitcoin will never surpass gold in terms of marketcap. However, both Bitcoin and gold are very popular, one in the physical world and the other in the virtual world. Gold has been accepted as a powerful asset by people for thousands of years, but Bitcoin has only been around for a few years. So there is no way Bitcoin will be able to surpass Gold.