Bitcoin Breaches 12-Year Support Line Against Gold – Is The Bull Run Over?
As Bitcoin (BTC) struggles amid the latest crypto market pullback – failing to decisively break past the $84,000 resistance – gold (XAU) continues its impressive rally, soaring to a record high of $3,000 per ounce on March 14. Bitcoin Gets Outshined By Gold 2025 has started on a shaky note for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. BTC is down over 10% year-to-date (YTD), falling from approximately $94,000 on January 1 to around $84,000 at the time of writing. On the flip side, gold has surged nearly 13% in the same period. Related Reading: Bitcoin Needs Weekly Close Above This....
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Bitcoin maximalists have always been known to refer to Bitcoin as digital gold. There are speculations that Bitcoin will overtake gold in the coming years as a preferred store of value. This seems to be the case with each bull market as Bitcoin outperformed gold by 10 times in 2020. Gold has always been a […]
One of the biggest factors influencing the recent Bitcoin bull run hands down has been the digital gold narrative and the capital flows from precious metals into crypto. However, looking back at the XAUBTC chart over the last several months, the recent retracement across crypto makes it look like the bull run never even started, […]
The digital gold narrative was partly responsible for institutional interest in Bitcoin, and putting the precious metal’s bull run on pause. Only recently was that narrative tarnished and cryptocurrencies fell by 50% in a flash. The crash in crypto sent Bitcoin back to retest its former all-time high against gold as resistance turned support, and […]