Why you don't listen to those in the 'know' from back in the day. The 'you have to use BTC for Gold argument, as a newbie, rather than 'virtual BTC' Glad I went with my gut on this.
The price of gold and Bitcoin when I started mining BTC Sept 18th, 2013. I really started with the KNC Jupiter ASIC miner on 10/18/2013...but hey, 0.69 BTC on the GPU cards count.
price of gold exactly 0 years start 2013 (more or less) it was $1,348.09 USD and BTC was about $130.86 (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
price of gold exactly 1 year later 2014 (more or less) was $1,226.96 USD and BTC was about $475.37 USD (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
price of gold exactly 2 years later 2015 (more or less) it was $1,121.32 USD and BTC was about $229.09 (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
price of gold exactly 3 years later 2016 (more or less) it was $1,328.57 USD and BTC was about $606.97 USD (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
price of gold exactly 4 years later 2017 (more or less) it was $1,327.06 USD and BTC was about $3,630.70 USD (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
price of gold exactly 5 years later 2018 (more or less) it was $1,202.50 USD and BTC was about $6,371.30 USD (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
price of gold exactly 6 years later 2019 (more or less) it was $1,502.51 USD and BTC was about $ 10,242.27 USD (more or less) the same/closest day on the charts.
The price of gold as of TODAY 11/7/2019 is $1,470.65 USD and BTC is currently today $9,271.90 USD as I type this here.
Using this chart for days closest on such chart (iffy by a day or so) for the price of GOLD historically.
https://www.moneymetals.com/precious-metals-charts/gold-priceUsing this chart for days closest on such chart (iffy by a day or so) for the price of Bitcoin historically.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/Hmmm....good thing I did not listen to all the Gold Bugs who said I needed something 'Tangible' as a store of value.
I know a LOT of folk back in 2013 that cashed out or put it in Gold/Silver. It was a lot of talk about which was better, back in those early days. I just went with the HODL
idea on Bitcoin and so far it seems to be working out quite well.
Take the poll if you wish.
later
Brad