...compared to say u.s. dollar bills which you can hold in your hand or stuff in your mattress.
this is why bitcoins will not go mainstream because majority of human beings on this planet do not have access to a computer.
successful gold standards are things like toyota trucks, ak-47's, u.s. c-notes which thrive in places like afghanistan and africa.
Well I think that is where you are wrong. Even if the majority of the population in the whole world can be debated that they might not have that convenient access to a computer. The workd is slowly but surely progressing into a technological based society and that is what is pushing the world governments to consider the digital currency which is cryptocurrency. As such even if a person cannot have a computer they have their phones or their smart watches and can function almost the same way