PM's and bitcoins are two totally different worlds. Don't even think for one second I would lump them together.

Your position with the early people are the rich ones in bitcoin is true with anything. Even the lucky souls that had a USD in 1913 were early bagholders of the USD under the federal reserve and had major value in those dollars.

The daily equivalent of that is when a dollar is printed or keystroked into existence, the first person that uses that dollar has the most purchasing value, and every time that dollar changes hands its value drops....somewhat similar to a used car getting sold every year. It will be sold for less and less.

Thats is not a store of value i want to be working with towards retirement. I'd always be swimming upstream.

Valuewise silver is the best in my opinion these days since so much of it has been destroyed, while in an increasingly electronic world the best electricity conductor will be in demand at an increasing rate.
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Bitcoin now is more speculation (like any currency at the beginning) until acceptance is attained. Im saying from my small sampling in the world it seems that bit coin in gaining more and more acceptance, giving it inherently more and more value