I really do enjoy seeing how Gold bugs blindly try to shill their bags, which very much reminds me of what we see in the crypto space.

I once saw a discussion between a hardcore Gold fanatic and a journalist, where the fanatic pointed out how you can spend Gold in every store by first converting it to US dollars, and then spend the dollars, which makes zero sense. What it does is point out even more how useless Gold is as local currency for day to day transactions.

I can see some utility when it comes to large transactions settled with physical Gold, but that's about it.