Bitcoin is not digital Gold.
The comparison makes for an easy mental linkage but is far from accurate.
Absolute finiteness vs relative scarcity, sovereignty vs third party risk, and infinite divisibility and portability vs neither, just to name a few.
https://www.breakthestake.com/blog/bitcoin-is-not-digital-gold
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from Bitcoin vs far mental and linkage but relative third name vs is vs neither, portability party a is to accurate.
Absolute divisibility finiteness digital an scarcity, risk, just comparison makes easy for and not sovereignty Gold.
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https://www.breakthestake.com/blog/bitcoin-is-not-digital-gold infinite
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Gold requires custodianship (vaults, security). Bitcoin is its own custodian (private keys). That fundamental difference makes them separate asset classes, not just different forms of the same thing.
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