$BTC
Although Bitcoin, which started in 2009, is much newer than gold, Bitcoin’s network effects benefit from the scale and speed of the internet. That’s because Bitcoin is a digital asset whose proponents are digital natives. So while the number of people who own Bitcoin has grown from zero in 2009 to over 100 million today, the number of people who own gold has remained relatively stagnant over the same period. It remains to be seen how wide the Bitcoin network will become, but if it were to achieve the same market cap as gold, each Bitcoin