&gt; it&#x27;s cheaper to secure, transport, and hide<p>Secure&#x2F;hide: It has the same attack surface as gold, plus the downsides of potentially being exposed to online attacks, along with shoddy wallet implementations fail to use sufficient entropy in address generation, fail to only send to valid and current addresses, etc.  I don&#x27;t hear about people having their gold stolen or otherwise losing it on a daily basis, but I do hear about people losing their bitcoins all the time.<p>Transport: an obvious advantage of bitcoin and it is currently cheaper, yet with the uncertainty in the blocksize debate and the utter lack of transparency in fee calculation, this may not always be the case.  Transport currently simply fails sometimes on a miner&#x27;s whim, and the user is left waiting for the transaction to clear from the mempool of enough nodes that they can respend the coins.<p>There is currently no reason to believe that bitcoin per se can scale to even silver sizes from that graph, let alone come anywhere close to gold.