That argument that value of gold is 'something real' is getting tired. Value of gold is not baked by anything practical - it's usage for jewelery depends on it

That argument that value of gold is 'something real' is getting tired. Value of gold is not baked by anything practical - it's usage for jewelery depends on its high value in a self referencing, half paradoxical feedback loop (see Nick Szabo on origins of money: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html ). But there is something that indeed makes gold a better standard than the printing press of the government - it is its objectivity. Printing money is just too easily manipulated, mining gold sets more objective rules and clear rules are what makes any decentralized social system work.