Central Banks Dump Gold for the First Time Since 2010, Precious Metal Drops 9...
A few central banks have started selling tons of gold for the first time since 2010 in order to ease the financial suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic. At $1,875 per ounce, gold prices are down -9.63% since the commodity’s high of $2,075 on August 6. Even though gold has dropped significantly in value in contrast to bitcoin (BTC), gold bug Peter Schiff decided to use the opportunity to rag on bitcoin on Twitter. “If you measure the size of asset bubbles based on the level of conviction buyers have in their trade, the Bitcoin bubble is the biggest I’ve seen,” Schiff....
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Gold investors are getting anxious, as the precious metal’s prices have slid a great deal since a number of vaccine companies have revealed medicines to combat the coronavirus. The price of one ounce of fine gold is valued at $1,770 per unit after the precious metal registered the third straight weekly loss in a row. Moreover, last week gold saw the largest weekly outflow ever, as investors seem to be selling the safe-haven asset in great numbers. Gold (Au) prices per ounce continue to spiral lower in value, as the price of the precious metal is down more than 14.5% since the....
During the debate, Schiff said that “in reality, Bitcoin and gold have absolutely nothing in common” as gold has value due to its metallic properties while Bitcoin is just a “giant pump and dump. ” Gold proponent and crypto skeptic Peter Schiff has been crowned the winner of a debate on whether gold is a superior store of value to Bitcoin.Schiff was facing off against Skybridge founder and former politician Anthony Scaramucci in a debate hosted by Intelligence Squared on Aug 25. Before the gold vs Bitcoin debate began, a poll scored 38% of the online audience in favor of the precious....
Bitcoin was designed to share several key similarities with gold, but the end result was an all-digital asset that does what the precious metal does best even better and then some. Eventually, the first-ever cryptocurrency could share a similar-sized market cap as the precious metal has currently, and one of the crypto community’s best chartists […]
While stocks and cryptocurrency markets have floundered during the last week, the price of the precious metal gold has increased in value by 3.85% during the last seven days. An ounce of fine gold jumped from $1,826.92 on February 10, to $1,897.36 per ounce on February 19. Additionally, the top gold-backed crypto coins today have seen a significant increase in demand alongside premiums above the spot market price of gold.
Gold Shines During Economic Uncertainty
The world’s economy has been shaky and many are blaming the turmoil between Russia and Ukraine, and the....
Bitcoin price has smashed all expectations, but even more so it has crushed almost all other commodities into dust in terms of raw ROI. Confusingly, however, gold is at the very bottom of the barrel. Here’s how Bitcoin has decimated the once precious metal and hard money standard, but also a look at a comeback […]