Well, technically you can own a gold ETF rather than physical, and whenever you want to send value to someone, sell it and wire them the money (free on Fidelity

Well, technically you can own a gold ETF rather than physical, and whenever you want to send value to someone, sell it and wire them the money (free on Fidelity and takes on the order of as long as a few Bitcoin confirmations). This is not too different in effect from being able to “send gold”. Anyway... despite the theoretical limitations of cash, hard currencies in practice have proven much, much more stable than Bitcoin. There hasn’t been hyperinflation in any of the major hard currencies (USD, CNY, GBP, EUR/D-Mark, CHF) since the invention of the fiat system. You can argue that cash can be manipulated and is therefore a worse store of value than Bitcoin but it simply isn’t backed up by concrete evidence in reality