Forget the fiber of gold, the new favorite medium for those who seek to survive an economic collapse is the bitcoin, which is already more popular than any currency or metal. This does not matter if it is a non-tangible medium that depends on electricity and internet connection.
In the United States it has begun to occur in a very curious phenomenon in the so-called 'preppers', who are mostly people who live in the countryside and have bunkers full of resources to live during a global catastrophe, such as a nuclear war. Since this movement is beginning to invest in bitcoins before anything else.