Bitcoin and Ethereum Backed by Gold - Industry’s Game Changer?
This month DinarDirham, a decentralized gold trading platform based in Hong Kong, is launching its own wallet with an in-built exchange supporting not only popular digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ether, but also the company’s own digital assets. What is DinarDirham. In 2015, DinarDirham decided to distance itself from a simple ‘gold trading platform’ format, and its field of operation has expanded since then. According to the company whitepaper, DinarDirham is “a company attempting to address the problem of volatility and price discovery by using the existing spot gold market as the....
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The "Gold Standard" was so far applicable only to fiat currencies. It means, that the currency in circulation in a country is backed by its equivalent worth in gold. Gold was chosen as a standard because it is universally accepted as a standard, and it still continues to be so. Recent days have seen the world gradually deviating from fiat currency to digital currency. Bitcoin and other altcoins are on the rise. Bitcoin is not backed by gold, and its value is decided by demand, supply and the number of transactions happening over the network. Thus making it more volatile compared to the....