Many people are still clinging to the old theory of "buying gold in troubled times," but it's time to wake up.

The gold market is actually much more complex than you imagine. Even seemingly professional collectors and appraisers often get fooled by counterfeit items like "gold with tungsten core." These fakes are quite tricky—weight, feel, and density all match the real thing, and routine X-ray fluorescence tests can't tell them apart. To truly verify authenticity, you need to melt the gold down or send it to a lab for nuclear analysis. Trust has become the most scarce commodity in this industry.

Think about the logic behind this: counterfeit technology is advancing, but authentication methods are aging. When fake goods surpass verification techniques, would you dare to stake your retirement savings on a single authoritative statement?

Bitcoin has taken a completely different path. Its most powerful feature is this—it doesn't require trusting any intermediary or authority at all. People around the world, using their phones connected to the internet, have the blockchain ledger automatically endorsing itself. Every transaction is transparent, traceable, and tamper-proof. There’s no room for fakes, no fuzzy areas. Code and mathematics are always honest.

This is the fundamental difference between traditional assets and digital assets: gold relies on centralized trust, while blockchain depends on mathematics and transparency. One is still torn over authenticity issues, while the other has long since crossed from physical form into informational form.

Looking ten years ahead, you'll be glad that what you hold in your hands is a cryptographically proven, permanently unchangeable private key, not a piece of metal that might be fake.