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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Gold 31 Moderate Deep liquidity and a moderate swing, but it pays nothing and costs you to keep — the shape of something held as insurance, not for return.
  • Bitcoin 56 Tough Extreme on fraud, protection and volatility, and trivial to enter — most crypto losses explained in a single picture.
  Gold Bitcoin
Exit difficulty 1 2
Volatility 3 5
Leverage 2 3
Carry cost 3 1
Fraud risk 3 5
Protection gap 3 5
Barrier to entry 1 1
Expertise needed 2 4
Difficulty 31 Moderate 56 Tough
In a sentence The oldest continuously traded asset on earth, valued almost entirely for the fact that other people value it, and priced in London twice a day.A fixed-supply digital bearer asset with no cash flow, no issuer and no closing bell — the first thing to demonstrate that money could be a protocol.
Unit Troy ounce (31.1035g) 1 BTC = 100,000,000 satoshis
Smallest realistic trade A 1g bar, or one share of a gold ETF A few pounds’ worth
Settlement T+2 in London; allocated or unallocated account On-chain, roughly every ten minutes, irreversibly

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