It would be surprising to me if gold was useful. The things you most want are presumably travel (flight/car/fuel for your car), and those things generally seem to be sold by large corporations which don’t accept gold.
I guess in theory if you have some gold and your assets get frozen but your neighbors assets are still liquid, you could sell them gold in exchange for cash (or crypto)? But I’m not sure if you can even buy plane tickets with cash these days. You can definitely use cash for buying gas though I guess.
It would be surprising to me if gold was useful. The things you most want are presumably travel (flight/car/fuel for your car), and those things generally seem to be sold by large corporations which don’t accept gold.
I guess in theory if you have some gold and your assets get frozen but your neighbors assets are still liquid, you could sell them gold in exchange for cash (or crypto)? But I’m not sure if you can even buy plane tickets with cash these days. You can definitely use cash for buying gas though I guess.