BTC has some superior properties:
1. Censorship resistance / Self custody
2. Reasonably cheap to transact large value across space.
3. Network effects
Also, gold like bitcoin have a huge monetary premium so the same argument applies.
Nice dodge on the 8$ min. transaction fees :)
Also the fees are in bitcoin - if bitcoin is worthless, the fees are nothing.
If you ever send a gold bar across the world, I'll send you a beer.
I won't pay the beer with bitcoin though, to expensive for normal use, that includes conversion to euro back and forth in USD/EUR to actually use it :)
Definitely not accurate and this says nothing of the massive environmental cost of transacting on the blockchain.