> Actual gold has physical storage costs aka a bank vault etc, those costs must be paid making gold negative sum. You can quantify those costs for the same mea

> Actual gold has physical storage costs aka a bank vault etc, those costs must be paid making gold negative sum. You can quantify those costs for the same measures of time that I keep talking about in this thread. As I keep saying: the cost of storing the asset is economically, demonstrably lower than the value of the asset for any meaningful, discrete timespan. > PS: You can spend less on security but you risk having nothing of it's stolen. Given enough time and it will be. By this logic, literally everything is negative sum according to thermodynamics. You’re not using a reasonable, accepted definition for this concept in the context of game theory. We know the heat death of the universe is going to happen, so does that mean the aggregate activity of the market is negative sum? This isn’t just incorrect, it’s incoherent.