If Bitcoin is so much better than gold, why it didn't surpass gold already? It's been 10 years since it was created, and adoption as a currency or as store of value is still very low - most people view it as a speculative asset. In the past some technologies took long time to get mass adoption, but this is because they needed a lot of improvements before the wider population can use them - this is not the case with Bitcoin, it's protocol is unlikely to see any major changes that would radically reshape it. So, why is Bitcoin not as popular as gold yet?