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PortuguêsThe impacts of gold and banking on the environment relative to Bitcoin are much greater than mainstream narratives suggest. The following is a republishing of Hass McCook’s “Comparing Bitcoin’s Environmental…
Continue ReadingThe last year in finance has been all about Bitcoin. The digital gold narrative arrived at the perfect time, amidst a perfect storm of stimulus money, irrational exuberance in the…
Continue ReadingStablecoins backed by fiat and other assets are increasingly gaining popularity, with many more solutions being brought onto the market each year. Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies have opened the…
Continue Reading“Don’t let short term losses in Bitcoin sour you on Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing,” Weinstein said. “Don’t let Bitcoin zealots chase you away either.” Eric Weinstein, managing director of…
Continue ReadingBitcoin prices have dropped below the $50k region during this week’s trading sessions sinking to a low of $47,555 on Friday. The popular creator of the stock-to-flow (S2F) bitcoin price…
Continue ReadingBitcoin 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…
Continue ReadingIn partnership with the Indonesian government, Kinesis is using blockchain technology to deliver gold-based financial services to the population. Kinesis, a gold-backed monetary system based in the Cayman Islands, has…
Continue ReadingGrayscale continues to grow, passing $50 billion. That’s equivalent to the world’s second-largest commodity ETF. Major U.S. asset manager Grayscale has just surpassed $50 billion in cryptocurrency assets under management…
Continue ReadingBoth Bitcoin‘s daily volume and the amount held by large addresses roughly match 10% of gold’s. After rallying more than 100% in 2021, Bitcoin (BTC) seems to be struggling to…
Continue ReadingJP Morgan says that bitcoin’s volatility has decreased in recent weeks, making the cryptocurrency more appealing to institutional investors. The investment bank has also revised its bitcoin price target to…
Continue ReadingMembers of the U.S. Federal Reserve and fellow bureaucrats have said that they are not worried about inflation levels and some officials have even encouraged a general increase in prices…
Continue ReadingThe digital gold narrative and fears of hyperinflation looming as the economy weakens and more fiat money is printed, has driven Bitcoin to incredible heights and done so quickly. But…
Continue ReadingThe popular safe-haven asset gold recently posted the lowest settlement in three weeks, as a firm dollar and bond market yields have weakened support for the precious metal. The financial…
Continue ReadingAs part of the continued demonization of gold at the hands of Bitcoin, the precious metal that was once the hard money standard has received the boot from popular daily…
Continue ReadingGalaxy Digital’s billionaire CEO told CNBC he’s shocked at the speed of cryptocurrency adoption. Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz believes Bitcoin (BTC) is on track to meet or exceed gold’s…
Continue ReadingBitcoin held gains, bond yields rose, and gold slipped ahead of President Biden’s next big spending push that could total anywhere between $2 trillion and $4 trillion. The BTC/USD exchange…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is approaching all-time highs versus gold. The digital currency broke above $59,000 on Tuesday while gold languished below $1,700. As the Bitcoin (BTC) price edges closer to $59,000, its…
Continue ReadingTether’s reserves for its USDT stablecoin exceed the amount required to redeem the digital asset tokens, according to auditing firm Moore Cayman. Tether Holdings Limited, a company behind the world’s…
Continue ReadingSoros Fund Management’s chief investment officer (CIO) says that central bank digital currencies are a potential threat to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but it will only be temporary. She also…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s comparison as “merely” digital gold demonstrates that legacy financial bureaucrats are in for a rude awakening. Early on Monday morning, March 22, during the Bank of International Settlement’s Innovation…
Continue ReadingA New Zealand hedge fund, NZ Funds Management, which had $350 million worth of assets under management at the end of December 2020, says five percent of its money is…
Continue ReadingFormer OCC acting comptroller Brian Brooks claimed that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin “actually are backed by something.” Brian Brooks, former acting comptroller of the currency of the United States Office of…
Continue ReadingResearch has revealed crypto investors are more likely to be ‘dog people’ while gold investors are more likely to be ‘cat people’. New research from US crypto exchange Xcoins suggests…
Continue ReadingLitecoin is often called the silver to Bitcoin as digital gold, and strangely, the two cryptocurrencies and two precious metals are exhibiting the same behavior where one is lagging behind…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. could repeat its 1930s ban on gold ownership but for Bitcoin. As the Bitcoin correction deepens, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt has returned, with billionaire hedge fund manager…
Continue ReadingMad Money host Jim Cramer, a long-term gold proponent, says that gold has let him down. He has become more bullish on bitcoin, advising investors to put 5% of their…
Continue ReadingThe CNBC host publicly thanks Anthony Pompliano after he made serious returns on a $500,000 BTC investment. CNBC host Jim Cramer has revealed he made “a ton of money” on…
Continue ReadingCo-founder of major Indian tech company Infosys Nandan Nilekani has urged the government to help MSMEs access capital using Bitcoin. Prominent Indian entrepreneur and government advisor Nandan Nilekani has spoken…
Continue ReadingFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sees cryptocurrency as a substitute for gold, rather than the dollar. However, he cautioned that crypto assets, including bitcoin, are highly volatile and not useful…
Continue ReadingJerome Powell reiterates his opinion about Bitcoin as a gold substitute, but a sell-off accompanies his other criticisms. While Bitcoin (BTC) is too volatile to be money and “backed by…
Continue ReadingKraken’s head of growth, Dan Held, thinks Bitcoin could reach $1 million within the current market cycle. According to Dan Held, growth lead at Kraken, Bitcoin is currently experiencing a…
Continue ReadingThe criticism that bitcoin has no “intrinsic value” is a misunderstanding of the very term. In fact, Bitcoin is intrinsic value. “Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.” This frequently heard criticism…
Continue ReadingGetting to grips with Bitcoin reveals its benefits over gold as a store of value, says SkyBridge Capital’s Anthony Scaramucci. Bitcoin (BTC) is superior to gold if investors take the…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s annualized returns have eclipsed all other asset classes by a big margin. Over the past ten years, Bitcoin has beaten out all over asset classes by at least a…
Continue ReadingA portfolio manager and member of Blackrock’s Global Allocation Fund says gold is now a less effective hedge against inflation as well as moves in other assets such as stocks.…
Continue ReadingA 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.…
Continue ReadingWith the price of gold down more than 11% over the last six months, some investment managers are questioning its status as a hedge asset. According to Bloomberg, Russ Koesterich,…
Continue ReadingSpencer Schiff, the son of gold bug and major Bitcoin (BTC) critic Peter Schiff, seems to have decided to move all his portfolio investments into one single asset, Bitcoin. “My…
Continue ReadingGold hit its lowest levels in more than eight months on Tuesday, a day after holdings in the precious metal-backed exchange-traded funds fell by 14 tonnes, logging the biggest outflow…
Continue ReadingA number of indicators suggest that Bitcoin (BTC) is pushing aside gold as the premier safe-haven asset. This could set the stage for wider mainstream adoption of the digital currency,…
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