The Congolese Mountain of Gold: Surprise Discovery in Africa Shows Metal’s Sc...
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....
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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....
Is gold becoming inflationary? Can Bitcoin replace it as a store of value due to its scarcity and reliability? Are Uganda’s numbers implausible? Questions arise. These are fraught times for the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, so it isn’t surprising that industry proponents might seize upon any promising news to help charge flagging markets. A Reuters report out of Uganda last week about a massive gold ore discovery supplied just this kind of fuel.What does the state of gold mining in Africa have to do with the price of global Bitcoin (BTC)? Quite a bit, potentially.Bitcoin has....
Gold disappoints on practically every timeframe while heading back toward all-time lows in BTC terms. Bitcoin (BTC) proponents continue to poke fun at gold bugs as the precious metal’s 10-year returns flip negative.As of Tuesday, fresh data shows tha XAU/USD traded 3.7% lower than it did on the same day in 2011.Gold fails to impress — On any timeframeXAU/USD 1-month candle chart. Source: TradingViewIt’s been a bad week for gold and its investors — a sharp fall on Monday has consolidated losses that have characterized much of 2021.Starting the year at $1,941, XAU/USD was down to $1,729 at....
Taking U.S. dollar devaluation into account, Gold has still not reached the all-time price high it set in 1980. Gold bug and Bitcoin (BTC) skeptic Peter Schiff was just 17 years old when the yellow metal set its true all-time price high. Meanwhile, Bitcoin, a much younger asset, sits close to its inflation-adjusted all-time high, or ATH, after just three years of downward pressure.Adjusted for inflation, gold reached a price of $678 U.S. dollars in 1980, according to a breakdown from Visual Capitalist. Accounting for inflation, based on calculations from Officialdata .org, $678 in 1980....
Editor’s Note: This article has been changed to make the nature of the Bitcoin Africa Conference more clear. The name of this title is “Bitcoin Africa Conference,” and this is the first time the conference has been held. The author of this article was not saying that this Bitcoin conference is the very first one in Africa. We apologize for any misunderstanding. As you may know, the world’s first Bitcoin Africa Conference will be held on April 16-17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. With all the buzz surrounding Bitcoin in Africa lately, it is no surprise that the first conference has made....