Question
The price of gold fell 10.5% since the beginning of the year, but the price of Bitcoin gained 332%. Bitcoin, in the same decade, has returned 146% annually, compared to gold's 0% per year. Is it really necessary for us to still debate which of the two is superior?
Gold does not carry the characteristic of expressing “superior”. There's no reason for gold to be comparable to bitcoin in terms of the technology it embodies, let alone in terms of efficiency and net asset classification. Gold is a classic demand while bitcoin is the future when you ignore value to compare them consistently.
Gold inherits an inherent age based on demand, bitcoin is newer and in the next few decades no one will compare bitcoin to gold but something else