Exceptional find. I think that article applies to many cryptocurrencies, not only bitcoin. However, your point, which you made all along, is that bitcoin will be the new gold. I agree that we could see 50% of the gold market move into bitcoin. It is the largest, most well known blockchain and it will continue to serve as the defacto "store of wealth" in the digital realm.
As for the ability to buy canned food with bitcoin, who cares? Bitcoin most likely will not be the currency. Nevertheless, that means nothing. There are a ton of currencies that btc can easily be converted into (and with atomic swaps, it might be automatic). Let something else serve as cash...btc will be the place where people park their wealth.
This also makes the transaction times rather meaningless.
Gold is still valuable but it doesn't deserve an 8 trillion market cap in today's digital world. The best idea is to stay diversified. The Gold bugs and preppers' biggest mistake has been to completely dismiss Bitcoin rather than diversifying at least a %1-%10 of their wealth into it. regards Taskmaster!
LOL check this out...look at the third one...BCH...
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@algons/cryptocurrencies-described-in-less-than-5-words
I agree although I feel the physical aspect of things will become less and less over the next 10 years as more of our lives go digital. The blockchain is going to swallow up a ton of stuff that is presently in physical form. Entire businesses will operate without much human interaction located entirely on the blockchain (this is BTS vision). To me, this environment is ripe for digital gold.