Gold is immutable, and can be refined back to it's 99.99 fine ounce. Apart from being shiny and possessing high conductivity, it's use in those products you listed there, from ASICS to mobile phones to graphics cards and quantum.

Gold will always edge bitcoin, because when the nukes inevitably fall, and all the nodes die in the EMP blasts, Gold will remain for whatever is left to pick up the pieces and start again.

But don't take my word for it, take 12 500 years of known history to be it's proof of work.

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Also gold doesn't need a constant supply of electricity to keep running.

In the same way you could lock up photos in a drawer 100 years ago and still look at them today, whereas the images you took on that digital camera around the turn of the century are lost forever because nobody can read floppy disks anymore.

True, forgot about the electricity needs. I take that completely for granted actually;