Except gold is not just a means of financial speculation, but it's also a precious metal highly sought after for it's uses in the electronics, medical, semicond

Except gold is not just a means of financial speculation, but it's also a precious metal highly sought after for it's uses in the electronics, medical, semiconductor, aerospace and other industries due to its very good electrical and thermal properties. Bitcoin on the other hand, if you were to remove its capability for financial speculation, then it would serve no other purpose and would just be some useless bits of data, just like NFTs.