Gold and Bitcoin Form Symbiotic Relationship
“I had to change my thought process to understand that bitcoin is no enemy of gold and silver,” says monetary expert Andy Hoffman, who writes for the precious metals website Miles Franklin. “When bitcoin hit price parity with gold in 2013, I was angry. I knew nothing about it. I assumed it was like the Federal Reserve. That, instead of 21 million coins,....
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Bitcoin has been called 'digital gold', but does this mean the two markets behave similarly? This relationship has been top of mind for industry observers for some time, as media coverage has often championed the idea bitcoin is a new 'safe haven' asset. But while some market observers have claimed there is a correlation between bitcoin and gold, members of the digital currency trading community disagree. Further, some have collected data they believe shows this relationship is speculative at best. Though bitcoin and gold have frequently displayed a notable correlation during times of....
Just because gold is losing momentum and bitcoin is gaining it doesn't mean investors are selling gold to buy bitcoin – not yet, anyway.
A new study has found that nearly 43% of Turkish individuals surveyed consider gold to be the best form of investment, while just 1.9% said they would invest in cryptocurrencies. Real estate is the next most-preferred after gold, with 27.4% of the respondents saying they would invest.
Fewer Turks Now View Gold as Best Investment
A recent study by Areda Survey has found that a significant number of Turks — about 42.9% — still consider gold to be the best form of investment. The figure is almost 15 percentage points lower than the number of Turkish individuals that....
For years now the well known economist and gold bug Peter Schiff has continuously spoken out against bitcoin, as he claims precious metals are far superior. A great number of people have rebutted Schiff’s statements about bitcoin but during the last year, the gold bug has had a different thorn on his side. In recent days, Schiff’s nemesis on Twitter is his own son Spencer Schiff, a young entrepreneur who is “interested in finance, Austrian economics, libertarianism, [and] anarcho-capitalism.” Gold Bug vs. Bitcoin Bug During the last year, Bitcoin.com News has....
A research report by Celent has looked at whether or not gold could be brought back as a means of exchange through bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain. The report, Micro Gold: Assessing the Use Case of DLT and Physical Gold, determined that the blockchain could transform the way gold is utilized as a form of currency, delivering the benefits associated with bitcoin. According to senior analyst in Celent’s securities and investment practice, John Dwyer, a currency needs to have three qualities, reports EuroMoney. These are a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of....