To say that gold proved demand for private money is either delusional or disingenuous. If you can’t admit that then I’m leaning toward delusion.

I don’t care about privacy and I don’t need it. 99.9% of people don’t care about privacy and don’t need it. I have non KYC UTXO’s and nobody can stop me from doing whatever I want with them. But in daily life there is zero demand for private transactions.

I do care about money that is auditable, finite, secure and that is clearly winning the global competition for money and SoV. This is Bitcoin. Monero fails on these criteria.