I've never really thought about it until Roger Ver laid it out so well, Convenience is EVERYTHING, Gold has been a great store of value for 1,000s of years, but loses every time to central banks because paper money is so much more convenient. It doesn't matter if you only keep $2,000 in ur bank account for general spending and properly invest the rest. Whichever money is the easiest to spend is the one that people will demand their wages in, and thus the deepstate can rob us forever because wages are set using an inflationary currency. If we had wages set in a gold or crypto, deflation would give us automatic pay rises. Bitcoin was perfect in every way, A better store of value than gold because gold can still be mined long into the future, while equally matching Fiat's usability.....until the fees started to prevent casual spending. Just a few months ago in April, Bitcoin's fees went up to $10+ again for 3 weeks. u/N0rds