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except you cannot melt it and wear it to show off

and you cannot produce electronics out of it, nor use it in dentistry, or medicine.

one reason it's better money than Gold, there are no industrial supply/demand dynamics impacting its price. It's pure monetary premium

And gold is a non reactive physical object. Storing gold is cheap compared to the infrastructure required to keep Bitcoin ledger information.

You need gold in a computer to mine bitcoin, but you don't need bitcoin to mine gold.