Reality about bitcoin : Bitcoin can’t exist without: - electricity - network communication - miners and nodes (chips made of gold ) - users and trust Reality about gold Gold can’t be used without : - users and trust Bun can exist without the things mentioned above. The universe has given us this captivatingly beautiful, dense, inert, malleable, scarce, useless and permanent substance whose only use is to be money. “Nothing is as useful and useless all at the same time. “- Peter Bernstein