{Mark Tencaten} | What Makes Bitcoin a Better Asset Than Gold
Bitcoin was created to resemble gold because it is intended to be a store of value. Throughout the history of mankind, gold has emerged as the best available store of value and medium of exchange. Despite having little "industrial" utility, gold has always been prized by people throughout the world, which is why it makes such a superb kind of money. It is widely available because people have kept it in storage from the beginning of time, yet it is also challenging to get. Gold is a great value store and a suitable medium of exchange due to all these factors. Due to its relative abundance and difficulty in mining, gold has value and, more significantly, a steady value, making it simple for societies to define their pricing in terms of the metal. Gold is the closest thing we have to perfect money in an imperfect world. Because of this, Bitcoin was designed to resemble gold in at least two significant aspects. First of all, there are only 21 million Bitcoin available. Esti...