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Plus, nothing has changed much in the big picture. We've had the usual pullback from an all time high in bitcoin while gold, and your beloved silver, hasn't gone anywhere.
Give it time.
Yes, this is feeling more and more like 2012, just with more scale: healing from really ugly scandals, but lots of core ecosystem building, important venture deals, and increasing developer/entrepreneur interest under-the-hood.
In short, nothing has fundamentally changed for the worse about bitcoin at any point in the last few years. The same does not hold for gold: something has come along that increasingly demonstrates a non-trivial chance of replacing it.