Silver's scarcity is less than gold but its practical portability and exchangeability is a bit greater than gold, because typical units of exchange align with p

Silver's scarcity is less than gold but its practical portability and exchangeability is a bit greater than gold, because typical units of exchange align with practical amounts of metal (coin-size, rather than gram-size). However, now that a highly-scarce, highly-portable, and highly-divisible Bitcoin is on scene, silver is less useful as a monetary metal because it loses to gold and/or Bitcoin on each of these qualities.