Unstable Bitcoin price to pivot investment flow to gold, mining chief says

Unstable Bitcoin price to pivot investment flow to gold, mining chief says

Evolution Mining’s executive chairman said gold and Bitcoin could coexist, but the latter is not yet mature enough to deliver the established safe haven assurance of the latter. Jake Klein, CEO of Australian gold mining establishment Evolution Mining, has said that crypto price volatility will make gold a far more attractive proposition.Speaking to CNBC on Thursday, Klein argued that Bitcoin (BTC) is still ways away from offering the longstanding security associated with gold from a hedge investment perspective, despite Bitcoin's returns outsizing gold by several orders of magnitude in the....


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