I don't see the problem of buying thins with bitcoins directly, as long as the merchants are willing to accept it. And it will happen when/if the market stabili

I don't see the problem of buying thins with bitcoins directly, as long as the merchants are willing to accept it. And it will happen when/if the market stabilizes. Gold has a lot of disadvantages (fractionating, checking for purity) that bitcoins doesn't.