Gold is a physical lump. Bitcoin is not. That's all that a huge amount of people will care about for a long time to come.
And that's a huuuge difference between Gold and
BTC that should keep it popular as a store of value well into the future.
• There's also no psychological significance to carrying around
BTC in whatever tangible form (paper wallet) that says to the average person "this is valuable and will save my ass in desperate times."
• Let's say a natural disaster hits a part of the country. Gold is recoverable even amid the rubble,
BTC on hard drives / paper wallets much less so, which would only further reinforce psychologically the value of gold in times of disaster.
• Also, in times of mass hysteria / panic in the streets, can you really be certain that the
BTC network will be up? I will say that Jim Ryckards new book did mention that you shouldn't be holding "paper gold" as that too will likely be worthless when-the-sh*t-hits-the-fan.