Gold did at one point in history have an actual use case apart from speculation and being pretty: it is almost uniquely suitable as currency and store of value

Gold did at one point in history have an actual use case apart from speculation and being pretty: it is almost uniquely suitable as currency and store of value (along with silver) because it is hard to create, easy to purify and non-destructively measure the purity of, fungible, and can be easily split and recombined into units of any desired weight as far as having an actual historic or present day use case, blockchain snake oil is still in search of a problem only it can solve to this day