If gold loses its speculative value, you still have a very heavy, extremely conductive, corrosion resistant, malleable metal with substantial cultural importance.

When crypto collapses, you have literally nothing. It is supported entirely and exclusively by its value to speculators who only buy so that they can resell for profit and never intend to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

The first photo in Wikipedia is great. I wonder how often foreigners bought them and then lugged them back home to have in their garden.