This is a very blanket statement. Not all stocks have dividends. Most don't. Some bonds have negative yields. Some consider a store of value to be an investm

This is a very blanket statement. Not all stocks have dividends. Most don't. Some bonds have negative yields. Some consider a store of value to be an investment (like, as you mentioned, gold or silver). Unlike gold or silver, though, there's a hard limit to the number of bitcoin that will ever be mined. It's not inconceivable that in the not too distant future we'll mine gold/silver/other precious metals from space, and prices will plummet. Bitcoin can certainly provide dividends, not necessarily in the traditional sense, via future hard forks. Anyone who has held bitcoin in the last 2 years or so have already received equivalent amount of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. Those chains can, in turn, hard fork, and assuming you have held you'd receive equivalent amounts of those forks, and so on.