{"id":35363,"date":"2021-01-26T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35363"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:58:53","slug":"bitcoin-enthusiasts-explain-the-true-purpose-of-gold-to-peter-schiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-enthusiasts-explain-the-true-purpose-of-gold-to-peter-schiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin enthusiasts explain the true purpose of gold to Peter Schiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial expert and uncompromising critic of the first cryptocurrency, Peter Schiff, has once again highlighted Bitcoin&#8217;s shortcomings by comparing it with gold. The community&#8217;s response was swift.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Losing the private key to your Bitcoin wallet is not the same thing as forgetting where you buried your gold. When gold is lost the world loses something \u2014 the potential use of that gold as a metal. When Bitcoin is lost the world loses nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gold?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gold<\/a> is wealth. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSchiff\/status\/1353753006156763142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Peter Schiff, forgetting where gold is buried is not equivalent to losing the private key to your Bitcoin wallet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abIf part of gold is lost, the world loses the ability to use that metal. With the loss of Bitcoin, the world loses nothing. Gold is wealth. Bitcoin is not\u00bb, Schiff concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post attracted the attention of Bitcoin supporters. Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital, asked Schiff whether he had arrived from [simple_tooltip content=&#8217;the year of the US Gold Rush&#8217;]1849 year[\/simple_tooltip] or not.<\/p>\n<p>And the host of the popular Bitcoin podcast Peter McCormack paraphrased the gold advocate&#8217;s conclusions:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Forgetting where you buried your gold is not the same as losing the private key to your Bitcoin wallet. When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is lost the world loses something \u2014 the potential use of that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> as money. When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gold?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gold<\/a> is lost the world loses nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is wealth. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gold?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gold<\/a> is not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter McCormack (@PeterMcCormack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterMcCormack\/status\/1353753521154371584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abForgetting where you buried your gold is not equivalent to losing the private key to your Bitcoin wallet. With Bitcoin lost, the world loses the ability to use it as money. When gold is lost, the world loses nothing. Bitcoin is wealth. Gold is not\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The debate was settled by the renowned analyst Willy Woo, who stated that gold is used in the manufacture of microchips for ASIC miners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is true, gold is really useful.<\/p>\n<p>Gold\u2019s highest utility is in internal connections of chipsets, used to secure Bitcoin\u2019s network, which routes digital value across the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>I mean it\u2019ll just be Bitcoin that keeps gold useful in the future \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Willy Woo (@woonomic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/woonomic\/status\/1353796203662589958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abThe main useful property of gold is its use in the internal connections of microchips, used to secure the Bitcoin network and transmit digital value across the Internet. And it is Bitcoin that will keep gold useful in the future\u00bb, he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Overall, Twitter users reacted to Schiff&#8217;s post with irony:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JuSMzyJziV\">pic.twitter.com\/JuSMzyJziV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thinking Crypto \u2014 YouTube Channel &#038; Podcast (@ThinkingCrypto1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThinkingCrypto1\/status\/1353860748104126464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in January 2020, Peter Schiff lost access to a Bitcoin wallet containing $50. The cryptocurrency had been gifted to him in 2018 by Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift.<\/p>\n<p>Initially Schiff believed his wallet had been compromised, but he later admitted that he had confused the PIN for the Blockchain wallet with its password.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial expert and uncompromising critic of the first cryptocurrency, Peter Schiff, has once again highlighted Bitcoin&#8217;s shortcomings by comparing it with gold. 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