> Bitcoin is a store of value, like gold. Not a currency.
Currencies have two properties: store of value and medium of exchange.
Gold has utility outside of store of value (you can make earrings or toilets out of it). Bitcoin does not.
Bitcoin has very limited uses as medium of exchange ("you can buy a pizza with it!"), I'm not aware anyone ever actually barters with gold anymore.
Both are speculative assets that store value, but have either lack medium of exchange or have limited use. Gold at least has some utility outside of these two properties.
That's it, there really is anything else to compare the two things by.
Currencies have two properties: store of value and medium of exchange.
Gold has utility outside of store of value (you can make earrings or toilets out of it). Bitcoin does not.
Bitcoin has very limited uses as medium of exchange ("you can buy a pizza with it!"), I'm not aware anyone ever actually barters with gold anymore.
Both are speculative assets that store value, but have either lack medium of exchange or have limited use. Gold at least has some utility outside of these two properties.
That's it, there really is anything else to compare the two things by.