50.00% - Gold has industrial demand and millennia of proven value; crypto is an entry in a distributed ledger — one of these is money, the other is a game.
30.00% - Precious metals have value. Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
20.00% - Gold’s value is largely dependent on social structures and traditions, which exist globally, and therefore is unlikely to decline substantially.
Precious metals carry intrinsic industrial demand independent of their role as a store of wealth.
29.27% - Precious metals have value. Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
17.07% - Gold has industrial demand and millennia of proven value; crypto is an entry in a distributed ledger — one of these is money, the other is a game.
14.63% - The gold standard disciplines government — when you can't print money at will, you can't inflate away debt or fund wars on credit indefinitely. That discipline is why politicians abandoned it and why we should restore it.
14.63% - Gold’s value is largely dependent on social structures and traditions, which exist globally, and therefore is unlikely to decline substantially.
14.63% - Mining precious metals is less detrimental to the planet than mining cryptocurrency.
9.76% - Hard assets work when the system fails — cryptocurrency depends on power grids and internet infrastructure, which makes it useless as a hedge.
100.00% - Precious metals carry intrinsic industrial demand independent of their role as a store of wealth.
0.00% - Precious metals have inherent demand and therefore value beyond a store of wealth.
50.00% - Platinum