244,000 metric tons of gold has been discovered to date, 55,000 tons of gold are left.
But there is still a lot of gold left in the universe. There is gold on asteroids for example. One day these will be minable. So the gold supply is not as limited as some may think.
However, gold is hard to move around, weighs a lot, it's hard to sell or buy, it's not practicable.
With BTC it's another story. We all know there are only 21,000,000 coins and 3-4 millions are already lost forever.
There is no Bitcoin in the whole Universe, except on Planet Earth.
BTC is scarcer than gold. I think one day 1 BTC will enter the $xxx,xxx zone then the $x,xxx,xxx HODL BTC
I think that saying Bitcoin is scarcer than gold is totally wrong.
First of all, you can divide Bitcoin into smaller parts and it works just the same. So this divisional fungibility really is what makes it possible for everyone to own some parts of a Bitcoin. Gold on the other hand needs to be a certain minimal quantity to be useful. Secondly and more importantly, Gold can be recycled but in a lot of use cases it's destroyed forever (made unrecoverable or not worth recovering). Bitcoin does not fall victim to entropy after too many uses. It stays fine as it is, no matter how many times it is used.
So you will find it's gold that is slowly fading away and becoming scarce, not Bitcoin.
It seems to me you are confusing scarcity with value because they share the same property of existing in a limited amount.