@roach:

The three big problems I see with gold are that:

1. It can't be sent over the internet

2. It is difficult to know if you have "real gold"

3. It is difficult to store (I can't keep it in my brain, or password-protect it so that it's useless to a thief) and easy for men with guns to take from me

Gold was the best money the world had ever seen, but standing shoulder-to-shoulder with bitcoin, it looks obvious to me that gold will become a relic of a long-ago era of human development.