Bitcoin may never escape its ongoing comparisons to gold.
According to Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, Bitcoin beats gold at its own game.
"Bitcoin
is better at being gold than gold — and not just incrementally, but by
an order of magnitude or 10X better," Winklevoss said in a Sept. 21 tweet.
Over the last decade or so, Bitcoin has risen dramatically in price, surpassing numerous landmark price comparisons along
the way. For many, it is now seen more as a store of value than a
transactional currency, and the public often compares the digital coin
against gold; a time-tested method of value storage used for thousands
of years.
"I don't understand why there's a competition between
gold and Bitcoin," NebraskanGooner, a pseudonymous crypto trader on
Twitter, told Cointelegraph. "I consider them both a store of value," he
added. NebraskanGooner is also the founder of LVL, a banking solution
in the crypto space.
In his social media post, Winklevoss
included a chart pitting the two assets against each other. Out of seven
categories, gold ruled one — the total amount money held in the asset.
Gold has a market cap of $9 trillion, while BTC has a market cap of $200
billion. Otherwise, Bitcoin took the win for scarcity, durability,
portability, divisibility, storage and counterfeit difficulty.
Bitcoin
has also recently gained further notoriety as a store of value in the
mainstream public eye in 2020, as multiple mainstream giants have invested heavily into the asset.
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