Gold from an ATM and a Growing Courtship With Bitcoin
For some of us love has been in the air this past weekend. And it is on that note that I would like to begin this article. On Friday last week, Quantified Assets announced to the world that they had launched a bitcoin vending machine that would dispense gold and silver. The vending machine is located at the Hackerspace on King George's Avenue, in Singapore. This was a first for the world, and the company behind the vending machines plans to include the same to all of its 118 machines in operation around the world. The choice of Singapore was also seen to be an inspired one since the....
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Last year, the Winklevoss twins predicted that Bitcoin is set to become Gold 2.0, right now it's starting to look as if they might well be right. Every day, according to estimates, around £220bn of gold changes hands in London. The gold price has been set since 1919 by the London Gold Fix. but, of late, the gold fix mechanism has been somewhat losing its luster. There have been growing concerns that the London Gold Market Fixing Limited, which is owned by Barclays, HSBC, Société Générale and Scotiabank, may have been manipulating, or at the very least allowing the gold price to be....
Bitcoin is not a gold standard as it is independent, without the intervention of any central bank or government agency. There has been a lot of comparison between bitcoin and gold in the recent times. Bitcoin has been compared to gold in many aspects. In fact, bitcoin is also called digital gold for a reason due to various similarities it shares with the yellow material. However, referring to bitcoin as a gold standard may not be relevant. The gold standard is a reference to the monetary system that was based on the value of gold. While most countries stopped following the gold standard....
A growing number of fund managers and institutional investors now prefer bitcoin over gold. They see the cryptocurrency as a better store of value and a better inflation hedge. “I think it’s probably going to be ten times better than gold over a long period of time,” said the founder of one asset management firm.
Bitcoin vs Gold: Bitcoin Is a Better Store of Value
Fund managers and institutional investors are increasingly opting to invest in bitcoin rather than gold, seeing the cryptocurrency as a better store of value and a preferred hedge against....
Throughout history, the story has always been about silver and gold. But since Bitcoin was born, gold now has to compete with a better-built, digital counterpart. The arms race for the fastest-growing safe haven asset is on, and currently, Bitcoin is in the lead despite such an enormous head start by the precious metal. That’s also likely to continue, according to a mathematic formula dubbed the “Miners Multiple” that says Bitcoin will reach substantially better […]