Gold Bug Peter Schiff Takes Bitcoin Correction as a Chance to Swipe at BTC

As reported by News BTC, “CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and chairman of SchiffGold, Peter Schiff, has once again provided critique of Bitcoin. The self-proclaimed gold bug used the opportunity presented by today’s downswing in Bitcoin price to argue his favourite yellow metal’s superiority over the digital currency.

“However, in his critique, Schiff seems to forget one crucial thing – Bitcoin is only 10-years-old.

“In the latest round of the Bitcoin vs Gold debate, self-appointed spokesperson for the precious metal, Peter Schiff,has taken to Twitter to renounce the world’s most popular crypto asset by market capitalisation.

“After the price of Bitcoin plummeted from highs of over $13,700 down to less than $11,000, Schiff took the opportunity to provide his take on the ‘idea that Bitcoin is just like gold’.

“The premise that Schiff appears to be battling the confines of Twitter’s character limit to get across is that gold is valuable because of its few industrial use cases and because you can make jewellery out of it. This is clearly false.  Central banks around the world aren’t stockpiling gold in vaults so that it can be made into mobile phones and wedding rings.

“Being a non-physical asset, Bitcoin is clearly unable to find utility in the manufacturing of electronics and lines of code can’t be worn around someone’s neck. However, this couldn’t matter less. Bitcoin, like gold, sells for the price it does because people want it. They want it because it’s rare and humans as a species have decided that this ‘thing’ is important. With a finite supply, the amount of money people are willing to pay to own said ‘thing’ goes up. It doesn’t matter what it is: gold, Bitcoin, the last bottle of water on a desert island, the market will decide the price of it based on what’s available and who wants it.

“If we compare the two assets at their ability to provide the service currently most coveted of them, storing value, Bitcoin emerges as a clear favourite on all but one metric – historical precedence.”

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