But past performance is not a prediction or guarantee of future results.
With thin air investments, it is no longer expected to get a return on your money, but happy you got your money back at all.
Once again, you refer to “investments”. By definition, neither gold nor bitcoin is an investment. They have no earnings, they don’t produce anything, and there is no organization.
People need to first understand what these things ARE before making declarations about them. You refer to a 5,000 year history of gold. When was the last time people regularly used gold to buy anything without being converted to the local currency.