Funny how I used to laugh at those people who called gold the "barbarous relic" but since I've discovered Bitcoin I'm beginning to feel the same way. As a former precious metals dealer I appreciate how Bitcoin is so darn easy to use and precious metals are such a chore to deal with.
Me too. I was preparing for a sale of some silver recently when the full impact of this hit me: man this stuff is heavy! Moving forward, I see gold as a hedge against a security fault in bitcoin and something that central banks may cling to in a final effort to save fiat. The concept of silver as money I now see as essentially pointless.
I had a taxi drop me off at the bank with some silver once on the way back from the airport. As soon as he left I remembered that my safe deposit box key was in my apartment some blocks away. Shit! I couldn't very well just leave the stuff on a park bench so I had to lug it all the way to my apartment to get my key then all the way back (my car being parked closer to the bank than to my apartment anyway and parking in the Bay area being a nightmare.)
Ya, Bitcoin has a variety of advantages. Some of these, and this one in particular, were key to Bitcoin capturing my interest some years later.
To you point about 'money', I see it as the opposite. Gold is fairly useless as 'money' because it is to valuable. Junk silver is just about right. I should point out that I don't see either as being useful as 'money' as long as the USD works fine, and it performs admirably as money at the moment. If I had confidence in this state of affairs persisting in perpetuity I would not be terribly interest in gold, silver, or Bitcoin.
