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It's marketing. Instead of explaining what Bitcoin actually is you compare it to something very simple that everybody knows and derive "digital gold" ...
by qplex 9y ago
It's marketing.
Instead of explaining what Bitcoin actually is you compare it to something very simple that everybody knows and derive "digital gold" ...
- timthelion 9y agoGold is also marketing. No one is going yaya over other, similarly rare elements [1]. Tantalum is significantly less common then gold, for example, and doesn't tarnish! And yet gold is 320x more expensive than tantalum [2] [3]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements#/media/File:Elements_abundance-bars.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem... [2] https://www.metalary.com/tantalum-price/ https://www.metalary.com/tantalum-price/ [3] https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/today/kilograms/usd/ https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/today/kilograms/u...