You may be fluent and knowledgeable about privacy, but fail to understand the "how" of sound money. If it were easy to mine Gold, and there was an endless amount of it to be mined, it would be economically worthless long-term.
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Fallacy. There's an abundance of gold. It is accessible for anyone with the knowledge and gumption to do so. Much like Bitcoin with ASICs, gold does need specific tools to acquire.
I respect the invention of "Programmed Digital Scarcity". It's a solid investment. But BTC has deviated from the original concept.
It's no longer peer to peer money as much as it is a HODL IT ALL function of human short-sightedness.