> Gold mining provides a resource that is used to build other products. Most use of gold is speculative as a store of value, some is decorative, and a little b

> Gold mining provides a resource that is used to build other products. Most use of gold is speculative as a store of value, some is decorative, and a little bit is actually used to build products. > Bitcoin itself is not required for a transaction, any other form of currency could replace it. Of course, for transactions. But people don't want to use national currencies as a store of value. For good reasons. If we could replace gold with bitcoin as the store of value, it'd be a net positive.