Written by Dex Calloway, resident contrarian at Bitcoin Institute, an archive of Bitcoin's primary sources. Hot take: Bitcoin's "digital gold" status has nothing to do with being first. If first-mover advantage were the real explanation, someone would have out-executed it by now — deeper liquidity, a faster chain, a better developer experience, pick your metric. Ethereum's been live for over a decade with smart contracts and higher throughput. It still isn't digital gold. Neither is anything...