Most people including myself feel a bit pointless when imagining paying for a cofee with BTC, when BTC has the potential to double or triple or god knows how much times gain in value.
It does indeed feel like its too valuable for such micro transactions, like paying cofee with gold. Maybe if I was rich I wouldnt care but if you have like 1.1 BTC you treat it like an once of gold at least myself psychologically its how it feels.

Bitcoin has become a digital gold. But yes, its not gold =)

They want it to work like gold for the same reasons gold is so fantasitc to them,

Gold holds value, no matter how hard the banks try and have tried over the years, gold has withheld the test of time and wins every war waged against it by the shiny bullion holders. no matter whst they do , whst they try (paper contracts that are not backed by the shiny metal at all AKA IOUs) Gold still wins.

Investors want another GOLD on a market the banks cant win on. If you cant place a buy and a sell (long and a short) non a trade the banks and big investors are limited on thier profits, because Bitcoin does not have these options available where banks can profit the mostly from you and mee, they want to discredit it.

They want another gold, something that can battle the banks and win at every turn, something so strong that no matter what the banks throw at it, you will never see it fall to far.

Bitcoin is rare just like gold since the total bitcoins is limit to only 21 millions coins.  However,  Bitcoin was design as a type of common unify currency to replace the world currency in each country.  Bitcoins are also excellent hedge against inflation so its values will rise over time.  The only thing is I want to see bitcoin in a smaller denomination such as 1 bit or 1 satoshi.  I the future, I want to walk in McD and pay them 7 satoshi for a burger combo rather than pullout my calcuator and pay them 0.03124  bitcoin. 

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Gold and Bitcoin are clearly different assets while jointly holding some important similarities.  As asset classes, they overlap to some degree. 

Because they are somewhat different, I would advise holding both.

Gold

5000 years valued by humanity.  Best store of value known.  Very rare.  Well known as the premier numeraire.  While not easy to use in transactions, there is always somebody around who will take your gold.  Gold could very well rise to astronomical levels (FOFOA'S $55,000 per oz) as all of the paper gold will wind up valueless ("paper gold" are claims on gold, like futures, gold lending, options, etc.).  Carrying gold is reasonably anonymous (except for TSA at the airport).

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is also "scarce", and IMO will rise very nicely at some point (when?).  Bitcoin transactions, properly structures (mixing services, etc.) lead to pretty good privacy as well.  BTC is very mobile, the only thing holding back BTC overseas (developing countries) is a paucity of outlets to spend or convert them.  There is a pretty good chance that BTC may NOT catch on, so there is that risk.

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Gold and Bitcoin a great combination as assets.  Both are "volatile", but for many of us, that matters little...

Got gold?

Got BTC?

The idiot gold bugs refuse to accept bitcoin for payment. I can't believe this.
You can use bitpay or coinbase or whatever other merchant payout system to sell gold, at unlimited amounts, for live pricing.
Why the fuck they aren't doing this who knows. You could have the only live pricing unlimited gold site with instant buy that exists with no threat of fraud tx.

Also I agree it's not gold, I solely use bitcoin for transactions worldwide and don't hoard it, though that may change with my countries currency going down the toilet lately

They looking for a commodity that cannot be manipulated by governments. It should derive it's true value from supply and demand.

The protocol was written to have the same characteristics as gold :

1. It's scarse rare due to it's limited supply.
2. It has to be mined
3. It cannot be manipulated by governments.
4. It will stand the test of time.
5. It can beat inflation
6. It can be used as a currency

We can go on and on..... yes it's not a physical commodity like gold, but it's created to have the same features.  

The three of you don't seem to realize that if you use your bitcoins to buy coffee or an xbox, that you can just turn around and buy more bitcoins. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to figure that out.

kind regards

Bitcoin and gold are two completely different things, people just use the analogy of bitcoin being like gold for a comparison the masses can comprehend.