The WSJournal article says if BTC is to change dollar, its current value is 0. Plus the ways of possible transactions with BTC is very limited and it requires spending lots of energy (who can explain the part with the energy spending?).
On the other hand if in future BTC would depend on gold, its value will be stable and it won't be opened to any fluctuations at all.
What do you guys think about that?
Every bitcoin transaction need to be confirm by adding it to the public ledger which is blockchain, this procedure need to be done by miners using mining hardware and software, this mining setup consumes a lot of electrical energy, that's why it is stated "energy spending" in the article.
BTC price has volatile characteristic which is totally opposite to gold's price characteristic, it will never get stable like gold in future.