Gold couldn't play that role very well because it didn't pay any income (although Armstrong claims he was the first to teach the Arabs how to lease gold), so it doesn't make sense to hold it until you think sovereign bonds will collapse, i.e. gold is only a hedge against collapse. So it doesn't signal until too late (and we can overshoot into MadMax).

Whereas, the crypto-currency I am going to offer (not only fixes Bitcoins problems) but it also has perpetual deflation (the money supply is forever asymptotically shrinking), thus it will provide the signaling you aim for. I am not making this up now, as this was already in my white paper which is already recorded online.

Now you might be getting closer to appreciating my bifurcation thesis.


Edit: in case this wasn't obvious, a few % a year of deflation (i.e. investment income for the holder) is a reasonable signaling option against a usury system that is dying, yet is not going to prevent someone from investing in the Knowledge Age which is growing at very high rates. The bifurcation thesis has many details to it.  

Also the deflation of the money supply is probably even outweighed by the growth of the Knowledge Age and thus the increasing market value of the crypto-currency.

I really don't think we will achieve any panaceas of Utopias. More important is what the Knowledge Age can do to advance the maximum division-of-labor which is naturally destructive to finance.