Uganda’s gold discovery: What it could mean for crypto
Is gold becoming inflationary? Can Bitcoin replace it as a store of value due to its scarcity and reliability? Are Uganda’s numbers implausible? Questions arise. These are fraught times for the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, so it isn’t surprising that industry proponents might seize upon any promising news to help charge flagging markets. A Reuters report out of Uganda last week about a massive gold ore discovery supplied just this kind of fuel.What does the state of gold mining in Africa have to do with the price of global Bitcoin (BTC)? Quite a bit, potentially.Bitcoin has....
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