Ultimately Bitcoin Is The Only Asset Everyone Needs

[coolcoinz]

It was actually $4,562 per ounce, that is it's new Ath record.. Gold is up because people are worried about a falling economy..yet it remains an analog asset.

Gold went up a lot because countries were buying it to protect their currencies. Gold isn't really a people's asset. It's used by nation states as a war chest. Russia is a great example of that. They bought gold before attacking Ukraine and then kept selling to finance war.

Quick google search:

In 2025, major gold buyers included
Poland, Kazakhstan, Turkey, China, and India, with central banks globally continuing strong accumulation to diversify reserves, despite higher gold prices, with Poland being the largest net buyer, followed by significant additions from Kazakhstan, Turkey, and China, while Russia showed a shift to selling gold for liquidity

You still need an expert to test it just to prove it isn't fake.

That's why it's an asset for countries to invest. Even if they somehow get cheated and the gold isn't pure enough, they can always print more money and buy more, lie to their citizens about how pure the gold was. Nobody really audits the central banks.
They don't want bitcoin because countries don't run exchanges and they don't want to sell on platforms belonging to private companies. They prefer to trade among themselves.

[Davidvictorson]

As much as we are pro-bitoin and it receives many commendations from us, I would like to be honest and say that bitcoin is not the only asset that everyone needs and there are folks who are pro-bitcoin but will never invest in it but in other assets. There are many assets that can make people as rich as bitcoin and are even more stable than bitcoin. But we need to knowledge to continue to invest in bitcoin without throwing away the other assets. Any those asset that has the same principle as bitcoin will thrive just as good as it is thriving.

[Hispo]

I have the feeling I will continue to see threads about the superiority of Bitcoin compared to gold as long as both assets remain in close to their local ATHs...
Anyways, it is true Bitcoin has some advantages which gold does not, the only thing in which gold defeats Bitcoin is time in the market... Since gold has been part of human history for millenia and Bitcoin have been around a few years.

Anyways, just because one has Bitcoin and consider oneself to be a Bitcoin maximalist, it does not mean one cannot have some gold as a way to diversify one's portfolio.

[Patikno]

Recently, the price of gold has risen significantly, even reaching a new record high of $4,384 during its surge on the spot market.
However, with its rising price, many people now doubt its authenticity. Even professionals must melt or cut gold to determine its authenticity. Gold can sometimes appear flawless on the surface, but contains impurities within.
Unlike Bitcoin, where anyone can verify its authenticity, and Bitcoin cannot be counterfeited, Bitcoin remains the only asset completely safe from counterfeiting.

However, we can't ignore the usefulness of gold, whether it is used for jewelry or as an electronic component. So, I think gold will always be needed by everyone, just like Bitcoin, which means both will remain useful forever. Regarding authenticity verification, the method for checking the authenticity, or purity of gold (its content) has now been made easier by sophisticated tools. However, I think the verification tool isn't easy or cheap. Bitcoin verification is much easier, and cheaper (it only requires a computer and internet). Cmiiw.

By the way, one of the crypto owner, and gold trader in my country once mentioned that his company has a gold testing device he purchased from America. He said the verification is quite easy, but unfortunately, he didn't reveal the price. I suspect he uses a sophisticated device that uses some kind of x-ray technology (which I found on Google).

[Vaculin]

Although I am inclined to agree that bitcoin is flawless in terms authenticity but the one problem that I have with bitcoin is that it is volatile and you do not want your emergency to be having more problems if you really to pull out money from your investments to supplement your emergency fund, imagine if you really needed that money to spend on something immediately and your only source is your bitcoins and during that time, your portfolio is on the red and now you have no choice but to take the losses. For me, I believe that you should diversify, more than anything because that way, you would not have a problem losing all of your investments at once.

One can invest both in physical gold and digital gold, as that will definitely maximize the future outcomes if both succeed in the long run.

However, one thing I want to point out that we should not compromise our emergency funds and use it to invest regardless of what asset is that. There should always be a good remaining balance in our bank account so that when emergency cases arise, we can withdraw it immediately without resorting into selling our bitcoin just to cater to the emergency needs. That way, our investment will remain untouchable so that it can maximize its future profits.

[Darker45]

At this point in time, not all that glitters is gold. Even China's official gold reserve was suspected to include fake ones. Even Perth Mint, which is owned by Australia's government, admitted to have mixed other metals like silver to its gold.

But Bitcoin can also be faked. There are so many Bitcoin owners today who actually own nothing but hollow numbers. IOUs aren't Bitcoin. For as long as you don't own the keys to your coins, yours is a fake Bitcoin. And I highly suspect there are way more Bitcoin in mere numbers today than real Bitcoin.

[yhiaali3]

Gold or any other precious metal can certainly be counterfeited by professionals by mixing it with special alloys, making it difficult to detect except by experts or through laboratory analysis.

Bitcoin's advantages over gold include being a fully decentralized, encrypted currency based on a public and transparent blockchain. Transactions can be verified through blockchain explorers, and it is supported by thousands of nodes and miners worldwide, making it virtually impossible to counterfeit.

[catnine1]

Recently, the price of gold has risen significantly, even reaching a new record high of $4,384 during its surge on the spot market.
However, with its rising price, many people now doubt its authenticity. Even professionals must melt or cut gold to determine its authenticity. Gold can sometimes appear flawless on the surface, but contains impurities within.
Unlike Bitcoin, where anyone can verify its authenticity, and Bitcoin cannot be counterfeited, Bitcoin remains the only asset completely safe from counterfeiting.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/12/30/UzTbtI.png

Gold authenticity is becoming harder to guarantee — even for professionals. As verification methods improve, so do scams. Today, gold can look perfect on the surface, pass basic tests, yet still be diluted inside with materials like tungsten. Detecting this often requires cutting, melting, or advanced lab analysis — after damage is already done.
Bitcoin is fundamentally different.
Anyone, anywhere, can verify Bitcoin’s authenticity with 100% certainty, instantly, without trust, permission, or intermediaries. No surface tests, no labs, no “cutting it open.” The network itself enforces truth.

https://app.binance.com/uni-qr/cpos/33960045753914?r=CMGQE90W&l=id&uco=aMCY2xMHXk7hh_jsMM4J4g&uc=app_square_share_link&us=copylink

true that tryna verify a gold bar is a whole lab experiment. verify a bitcoin? just check the blockchain, takes seconds
the trustlessness is the killer feature cant fake it cant dilute it in a world of scams and impurities btc's purity is why its the only real asset that matters long term gold's cool but its analog in a digital world

[snowpega]

Recently, the price of gold has risen significantly, even reaching a new record high of $4,384 during its surge on the spot market.
However, with its rising price, many people now doubt its authenticity. Even professionals must melt or cut gold to determine its authenticity. Gold can sometimes appear flawless on the surface, but contains impurities within.
Unlike Bitcoin, where anyone can verify its authenticity, and Bitcoin cannot be counterfeited, Bitcoin remains the only asset completely safe from counterfeiting.

I think we cannot compare both assets this way, as gold is a physical asset and can be owned physically for the long term, but on the other hand, Bitcoin is a digital asset, and yes, we can say that it is the digital gold in the crypto space. Where we know the exact supply of Bitcoin, and we know that it is a decentralised asset, and this thing makes Bitcoin a unique asset.

And on the other hand, the supply of gold is not exactly determined, but I know it is a rare asset while miners mine it. This is why I am saying that we should not compare these two assets with each other. What do you think about this? And if you feel I am wrong at any point, then your opinion is also highly welcome.

[havok1998]

You've identified a real distinction between physical and digital assets, though the comparison deserves some nuance. Gold's authentication challenge is genuine. Counterfeit gold does exist, and verifying purity requires expertise or destructive testing. That's a legitimate friction point for anyone holding significant amounts.

Your point about Bitcoin's verifiability is accurate. Anyone can verify Bitcoin's authenticity by checking the blockchain. The ledger is transparent, immutable, and mathematically verifiable. You can't fake a Bitcoin transaction or create counterfeit coins without controlling the majority of the network's computing power, which is economically unfeasible.

But here's where the comparison gets complicated. Gold's friction is authentication. Bitcoin's friction is different: custody and access. If you lose your private keys, your Bitcoin vanishes forever with no recovery mechanism. Gold can be recovered, melted, and reissued if lost. Gold also doesn't require electricity, internet connectivity, or technical literacy to hold securely.

Both assets solve different problems. Gold solved the store of value problem for centuries before digital assets existed. Bitcoin solves it for people who need censorship resistance, portability, and digital verification.

Neither is universally superior. Gold remains practical for people without reliable internet. Bitcoin excels for those needing borderless, verifiable wealth storage. For serious wealth protection, many people actually hold both.

[qurbanshah02]

Gold or any other precious metal can certainly be counterfeited by professionals by mixing it with special alloys, making it difficult to detect except by experts or through laboratory analysis.

Bitcoin's advantages over gold include being a fully decentralized, encrypted currency based on a public and transparent blockchain. Transactions can be verified through blockchain explorers, and it is supported by thousands of nodes and miners worldwide, making it virtually impossible to counterfeit.

Such scams did not happen before because earlier it was detected by looking at any low-quality items, but now due to the modern era it is detected and it has become easier, so we can guess whether the thing in front of us is real or fake. This is because the development that Bitcoin is working on is really a lot of development for them, which is not like gold in reality. But gold works in scams even though it is clear. It is quite good that now we will be able to avoid any fake work and get on with our work. We will get to see such a lot of modern things in the future, so we should keep some real things for now.

[Gost ms]

Bitcoin is much better than gold. As you mentioned, Bitcoin cannot be counterfeited. Yes, it is true that Bitcoin cannot be counterfeited and the supply of Bitcoin is very low. No one can ever create more Bitcoins even if they want to. If we talk about gold, then we will see that gold is counterfeited to a large extent and a common person cannot tell the difference between real gold and fake gold and no one can say how much gold is in supply.

Maybe very soon the price of Bitcoin will be higher than the price of gold. Because the demand for Bitcoin is currently increasing, it seems that very soon the price of Bitcoin will be higher than gold. The Bitcoin network is very strong, it is never possible to hack the Bitcoin network. Maybe in the future Bitcoin will rule instead of gold.

[Faisal2202]

Recently, the price of gold has risen significantly, even reaching a new record high of $4,384 during its surge on the spot market.
However, with its rising price, many people now doubt its authenticity. Even professionals must melt or cut gold to determine its authenticity. Gold can sometimes appear flawless on the surface, but contains impurities within.
Unlike Bitcoin, where anyone can verify its authenticity, and Bitcoin cannot be counterfeited, Bitcoin remains the only asset completely safe from counterfeiting.

Everything that shines is not gold haha, sorry, I know this is the wrong statement but that's true, just like hackers are improving and dominating in the crypto market and scamming people with techniques that even white hat hackers are shocked.

Same way, these physical market scammers are finding new ways to scam professionals with fake gold but I never bought gold yet, and when I will go to the market to buy some, I don't know what should I check but I have some tutorials saved to watch just in case but the thing is, would I be getting real gold or fake one. But in the Bitcoin case, I need no tutorial, I am getting one hundred percent genuine thing and that is for sure.

[JiiBs]

Recently, the price of gold has risen significantly, even reaching a new record high of $4,384 during its surge on the spot market.
However, with its rising price, many people now doubt its authenticity. Even professionals must melt or cut gold to determine its authenticity. Gold can sometimes appear flawless on the surface, but contains impurities within.

It’s okay to be Pro-Bitcoin but, Gold is equally a very good asset to buy. It’s stood the test of time, severing as currency through several centuries and insider as reserve by all the nations of the world. Not to mention, it has a relatively stable value when it does rise and it does. It’s a traded currency too and falls within affordable range.

Bitcoin is still a very good asset and probably a lot more better than dollar given its valuation over time but, we must acknowledge that gold is okay too.

[Findingnemo]

If you think gold might not be pure as it gets expensive is the reason for people to switch to bitcoin, then you are wrong, there are modern and cheap equipment available that can scan the entire gold and check for the purity and if any metal is present, they will melt it only if the sale is finalized.

I want people to stop treating the bitcoin as an alternative to gold because it kills the true purpose of bitcoin.