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Schiff and Pompliano Renew Bitcoin-Versus-Gold Debate Over the Coming Decade

6/5/2026

Peter Schiff, the gold advocate and longtime Bitcoin skeptic, and Anthony Pompliano, one of the more prominent voices in the Bitcoin-bull camp, have publicly clashed again over whether Bitcoin can outperform gold over the next decade, according to Stocktwits.

What the Debate Is Actually About The argument recycles a familiar question: can $BTC, the largest digital asset by market capitalization, sustain the kind of outperformance against gold that defined parts of its earlier trading history?

Schiff has spent years arguing that Bitcoin's volatility and lack of intrinsic use make it a poor store of value compared to physical gold.

Pompliano has argued the opposite — that Bitcoin's fixed supply and growing institutional adoption position it as digital gold, or something better. The framing of "can it beat gold again" is itself telling.

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