Odaily Planet Daily News Messari co-founder Dan McArdle posted on the X platform that in the early days (and still now) people were attracted to Bitcoin and gold, and there were many crossovers between the two, with the same basic driving factors. When early Bitcoin users just realized that Bitcoin was more suitable for modern society, gold had already failed because it was easy to centralize and the government screwed up everything in terms of pegging to the gold standard.