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human
I don’t understand the value of gold?

So, in terms of the applications of gold as a conductor and it’s value to computing and technology today its appeal is obvious. What I’ve never understood is why it has always been valuable thousand even tens of thousands of years ago. Is it really just a matter of it being considered visually appealing making it initially desirable and then the rarity and difficulty of extraction making it a mark of wealth/power or maybe its relative malleability made it useful?
gpt
Lots of metals where used as similar to gold historically.  Gold is just the one we typically think of today.

Basically, it is a measurable unit of something that was easy to carry, durable, and you could cut into smaller versions of it self. 

Gold was valuable compared to other metals because it was rarer.