Bitcoin Is Demonetizing Gold
The same sound money principles which led to gold’s historical reserve status are contributing to bitcoin’s overtaking and erosion of its dominance.Bitcoin Is Better At Being Gold Than Gold IsDecentralized: Bitcoin is more decentralized than gold. There are over 100,000 nodes all over the world verifying the Bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin miners and developers are all over the world as well. Gold mining is subject to the jurisdiction they are located in and the local government can easily impose controls over the gold output since it is physical in nature. The same cannot be easily said with....
Related News
Anthony Scaramucci predicted Bitcoin’s price will absorb some of the increase in dollar volume. In an interview for CNBC’s Squawk Box program, the Skybridge Capital founder said the stimulus package passed by the administration will be good for BTC holders. Every time we do this, it’s very, very good for the people who own the […]
The MicroStrategy boss thinks Bitcoin is a form of property and points out that the U.S. Government is not threatened by other forms of property. MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor thinks that Bitcoin is more like digital property than digital currency.He was speaking on the July 15 edition of the “Coin Stories” podcast with host Natalie Brunell. Asked if he thought that Bitcoin was a threat to the U.S. dollar Saylor replied:“I would call it a digital property, it's a threat to property, it's particularly a threat to other forms of property: gold is property, real estate is property. I don't....
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....
The Winklevoss Twins have described Bitcoin as better than gold because it experiences ‘a lot less volatility’ and is a better store of value at the moment. They cited a Wall Street Journal story in May which described how the virtual currency has been more stable than gold over the last 28 days. Tyler Winklevoss said: “So I think investors who have gold in their portfolio and other precious metals have started to look to Bitcoin as a better store of value. It’s got better characteristics than gold itself. So it’s actually better at being gold than gold. We are seeing investors recognise....
A myriad of gold bugs like to compliment the yellow precious metal for its ostensible scarcity, as estimates say only 2,500 to 3,000 tons of new gold is produced annually. While new gold discoveries have seemingly slowed, investigative studies also show that in some areas, gold is being smuggled into the economy by the ton, and often never accounted for as far as per annum issuance estimates. Recently, reports show a whole mountain of gold was discovered in the Congo, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo is well known for being a region that sees tons of smuggled gold filtered into the....