Not so important for a store of value.
> Bitcoin advantage: weighs nothing, highly transportable. Gold not so much.
Yet requires an order of magnitude more skill and overhead to handle.
> what advantage does it have over gold?
can you point me to words "store", "of" and "value" in the above question?
> order of magnitude more skill and overhead to handle
only if you assume handling gold means dropping the gold bar in your basement and never touching it again?
Bitcoin is up the past couple of weeks. So inevitably, the BTC community will be calling it a store of value.
I think the general community is just reacting to the moving goalposts. When BTC's value is up, its a store of value. When its value is down, BTC's value is its transactions.