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> gold shares a lot of properties with Bitcoin, and therefore should be considered a sham by most of HN

Gold and gold buggery are separate. Gold and silver have deep precedence as money. They're also useful commodities. Gold buggery involves retail investors disproportionately allocating to gold as a buy-and-hold asset, often with emotional attachment. Those buying crypto because it's going to free the world or whatever resemble the latter.

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