All physical commodities, including gold, are subject to technology deflation. As technology improves, it becomes cheaper to extract, refine, and distribute them. Since gold is defined by its 79 protons, future technology may one day allow us to synthesize it from other elements. In fact, this has already been done (see link below). Bitcoin, by contrast, is a digital commodity and uniquely immune to this dynamic. While some view quantum computing as a potential threat to bitcoin, its digital nature allows it to be upgraded before such a threat can materialize. This gives bitcoin a distinct advantage over all physical commodities, which are unable to upgrade against future technological breakthroughs. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-marathon-fusion-mercury-gold-energy.html(Joe Burnett, MSBA)