One sign that tells you that someone is still some centuries behind is when you talk about an investment option with them and all they talk about is physical assets. Some don't even see buying a digital asset as a good investment option probably because they've been used to buying properties or assets they can easily see and show people that they own it or one that's popular like land, gold, houses, machinery, etc. But when it comes to choosing either physical or digital assets to invest in, the advantages of owning digital assets are far more than that of owning physical assets.
Advantages of digital assets.
1. You can be filthy rich with a Bitcoin holding that's worth $billions and still live a low-profile life unlike owning physical assets like acres of land or properties that are tied to your name and will bring unnecessary attention.
2. Digital assets are mobile which means that at any time you choose to relocate to a desired destination, you don't need to worry about selling all your assets before doing so, you can just sell a small fraction that's enough to sort out your traveling fair and keep holding to your digital asset. That's not possible for physical assets as it will require that you sell them under pressure and you might be forced to sell them at a very low price.
3. It's not subject to government regulations or environmental issues: digital assets are not subject to regulation of the government or environmental changes that will affect assets like lands, gold, houses, and properties. As long as you're with your keys and you're alive, regardless of the environmental hazard or bad government policy that's not favorable in your location, you can easily change location while holding your digital assets.
Physical assets are good from the standpoint of diversification of investment and maybe for showing off that you have wealth, but in comparison to digital assets like Bitcoin, it's better to invest in digital assets over most physical assets.
Digital assets just like physical assets too has it own weakness and strength, To me one of the weaknesses of digital assets especially Bitcoin which can also be seeing as the strength is decentralisation,
Decentralisation as a weakness to me is in the aspect of security risk because if a transaction is mistakenly transferred to the wrong recipient then it is a loss on the sender's end, without any authority being able to reverse or retrieve that transactions, no regulatory body to report to.
But I also see decentralisation as a strength of Bitcoin due to the fact that it doesn't have a central control, as no one can stay at the admin end and manipulate anything like we see most times in our traditional banks,
Here in this part of the world Both physical and digital assets needs each other, they work hand in hand, same way we invest in digital assets should be the same way we invest in physical assets,
In the event of death, your digital assets is gone forever with you, but investing in physical assets your family members like wife and kids will have something to hold on to even when you are gone,
I stand to be corrected.