When talking about these guys, one word is all you need to check into:

'Ponerology'

You should have got a smaller coin. You can get, for example, 50g gold bars that are scored so they can be broken into 50 1g bars. 1g of gold is currently worth about £25, so it's a reasonably small amount to spend. More generally, one of the reasons gold has been a successful currency in the past is that it is ductile. It can be thinly divided; you can beat it down to gold foil if you want to. It's not as divisible as bitcoin, but it's as close as a durable, physical substance gets. Alternatively, if you are using it as a store of value, you can sell it to a broker in large chunks and get fiat currency - or bitcoin - back. It doesn't have to be spendable at a supermarket to have value.

I like both gold and bitcoin. Gold is especially a hedge against civilisation collapsing. Bitcoin kinda relies on having electricity and a working internet. Personally I still see bitcoin as high risk. I wouldn't put money in it I couldn't afford to lose. I'm more confident about gold.

The only reason they do this is because gold heavy fund managers like him & Schiff are in DEEP SHIT thanks to Bitcoin. They lost their clients 20%+ last year and all they had to do was have a tiny 1% hedge in Bitcoin and their clients would be smiling.

Right now their clients are leaving them en masse even though the clients are still long gold, they're all realising there's no point having a fund manager specialising in this space if he can't spot the risk/reward ratio of Bitcoin and at least hedge 1% there. 1%!? 1%...

They're about as useful as an ejection seat in a helicopter. Worse they probably even specifically discouraged some clients from Bitcoin last year and they're paying the price.