Bitcoin would be the most fair choice for a new reserve currency. It has equivalent properties as gold but is more practical to use, and there's no geographic inequality to mining it.
No government could benefit from manipulating it. How cool is that ?
Is Bitcoin even a currency? Who spends it? And who keeps it stable?
It’s more deflationary than gold due to hard fixed supply plus breakage.
> there's no geographic inequality to mining it.
Apart from having access to cheap energy which is collocated with... specific geographic features like geothermal / hydro energy which not all countries have access to.