...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.
This is not true. People today may not have a personal computer but they have a smart phone which can access internet and can access butcoin in a different way. So bitcoin will never fail. And infact, there are more and more people into bitcoin.