How can you state that gold will increase forever? Its been decreasing value per year for the past 5 years, reaching its all time lo this year. The only reason bitcoin succeeds gold is for its potential, because its value can increase 10 fold-100 fold but gold? No, I don't think so. I've seen companies gone which were there for a century, what is a shiny object in comparison?
Things change.
This is pretty easy to explain. Gold has been falling since 2012 (surely not the past 5 years) when the Fed finally stopped printing money as hell (QEs, actually Ctrl-P's). Till then gold had been soaring since the beginning of millennium. To reach back there it has yet to fall
three times from where it is now...
The bottom line is that gold will
appreciate since the dollar is doomed to
depreciate in the long run. This is a given
Yes. Gold has also been around much longer than the dollar. 5000 years longer. Supply of dollars will almost surely expand than supply of physical gold.
Even if BTC becomes used worldwide, there will always be lots of people (myself especially included) who will take gold.
"There is always someone around who will take your gold." (meaning they would take it as payment)
-- traditional
"When you get gold, you have already been paid." (meaning FIAT$ need to be changed into food, services, etc.; EXCHANGED again)
-- FOFOA