The Cypherpunk Guild sponsored last week’s Porcupine Freedom Festival (a.k.a. #PorcFest or "the libertarian Burning Man"). With 2500 attendees, #PorcFest2021 was the world’s largest libertarian event, and probably venue for crypto and metals *use*.
When a young Bitcoin Magazine reporter named Vitalik Buterin covered #PorcFest for the full week in 2013, the buzz was about Bitcoin ("gold 2.0") replacing gold and silver:
https://porcfest.com/2013/07/07/porcfest-x-media-recap/
At #PorcFest2021 many cryptocurrencies were in use, but gold made a resurgence in the form of the New Hampshire series of Goldback money:
https://goldback.com/news/the-new-hampshire-series-is-out-wyoming-is-next