exactly. the “if you can, everyone can” fallacy is peak cope. knowledge, tools, and will are unevenly distributed,bitcoin & gold both demand counter-parties that meet a threshold. the edge case isn’t the protocol, it’s the local brain-drain. stack liquidity across asset classes and skill-sets, keep your network alive, assume most people won’t magically level up when the lights go out.

I know not everyone knows and understands bitcoin, but the same happens with gold. Parting from zero, it’s easier to be equipped to verify bitcoin than verifying gold. At least in my opinion, let me know if everyone in your neighbourhood have tools to check gold purity, authenticate it, weight it, and divide it precisely. For my case, I only meed someone with a working phone/computer. Maybe you are the one in the “know hows required” type of situation.