Gaw miners is nothing like the scam the wallstreet banksters roll out. The gold certificate scam is a 500 billion $ scam.
I dont think any bitcoin scammer has defrauded anybody that much. So put things in perspective before you say shit like that.
You can always buy physical gold if you feel need to. Regarding confiscating gold by government, I can only send you where I sent the other poster, that is, to find out the gold distribution...
I'm curious whether you really think that gold is more vulnerable than bitcoin in this respect?
Yes definitely it is. You can just have 10 multisig wallets and spread out your coins between them, all kept offline, on a hidden & encrypted container. Let's see what government gets those coins.
In case of gold, there is no vault safe on Earth that is safe from government, it takes 1 court order on some bogus charge and your gold is confiscated, along with everyone elses gold.
Or if you keep the gold buried in your backyard its even worse, nasty neighbors could be informers, in case a gold ban happens. And if you try to move it out from the country, the border guards might have a few words with you.
Keeping wealth so concentrated is a risk by itself, and gold has a very high concentration of $/cm^2. The more spread out the wealth is, the less risky. Unless you want to keep your gold in gold dust scattered on a beach (good luck collecting it afterwards), I would not hold alot of gold.So maybe a few bars in some Switzerland vault, but not all my wealth.