Most of mined Gold is used as an investment vehicle or to make jewelry.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

Thanks for the link!

    Investment.    46.64%
    Jewelry.       36.83%
    Central banks.  8.58%
    Technology.     7.95%

According to the stats you shared, less than 10% is used by central banks (currency), about 37% in jewelry, and about 47% for investment.

I don’t think it’s fair to lump in jewelry with currency and investments. Much of the discussion I hear argued around cryptocurrency is in comparison to fiat currency. Investments are something again different in my opinion, though I might be convinced otherwise if I saw the those making the comparisons to, say, gold, and making cogent, nuanced points.

But that 46% used for “investment” can still be used for something tangible at a later date and so has something other than speculation setting it’s price.

Frankly I was pleasantly surprised it was only 46% used for investment.

there are multiple generations of people at this point who don't draw the line of utility at “tangible”

now that population has irrevocable possession as well, which still doesnt exist for digital tradable goods outside of this system, and all those people can use their digital property for multiple things too

even if it only does any one of those multiple thing moderately well, instead of anything exceedingly well, thats still value. it relies on cognitive negligence to make a separate higher standard for this, that could not apply to any asset under supply and demand pressure.

Even if gold were exclusively used as an investment, it would still be lower-carbon than Bitcoin. The energy spent per dollar of gold mined is much less than the energy spent per dollar of Bitcoin mined.

Over half of gold mined goes to investment purposes: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

What percentage of Bitcoin is used for speculation/investment

It doesn't really matter. Gold is just a hard to counterfeit token.