Co-Founder and CEO of Blockstream Adam Back believes that Bitcoin could reach $300,000 in five years due to the current economic situation worldwide. In an interview, he also refuted the recent claims that he is the mysterious person behind BTC – Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin To $300,000 By 2025? In his recent interview with Bloomberg, the...Read More
Cryptocurrency analyst and creator of Bitcoin’s stock-to-flow model, PlanB, recently noted that an indicator that historically precedes bullish momentum according to his model has now flashed. Per his initial prediction, the asset is targeting a total market cap of $1 trillion in the next few years. Bitcoin’s S2F Model The stock-to-flow model became an instant...Read More
The University of Sussex recently published a paper regarding the performance of Bitcoin and gold during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team behind the project believes that both assets failed to serve as safe-havens, primarily because of significant market manipulations. Bitcoin And Gold Failed In The 2020 Crisis? The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic...Read More
The large American multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs will host a conference call regarding Bitcoin, gold, and inflation. While precise information on the call’s content is limited, the massive bank appears to be the latest Wall Street-based entity to acknowledge the primary cryptocurrency. Goldman Sachs To Talk About Bitcoin According to the invitation, the event...Read More
Bitcoin’s halving is behind us, and its price is nothing but soaring. Moreover, BTC is surging while legacy markets continue their downturn, strengthening the narrative that the cryptocurrency keeps on decoupling. Bitcoin Price Soars 9% in Less Than Three Days Bitcoin’s halving took place a little more than 48 hours ago. At the time, BTC...Read More
The popular American hedge fund manager, Paul Tudor Jones II, said that he is buying Bitcoin amid the growing trend amongst world central banks to print excessive amounts of money. He added that the hedge fund he founded in 1980, Tudor Investment Corporation (Tudor BVI), could start allocating portions of its assets in Bitcoin futures....Read More
Jeff Berwick is an entrepreneur with a lot to say these days and he’s released a number of videos discussing the coronavirus pandemic and the government-induced lockdowns. Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, an anarcho-capitalist media outlet focusing on gold, silver, mining stocks, cryptocurrencies, and offshore banking. News.Bitcoin.com chatted with Berwick this week...Read More
The last two months dealing with the coronavirus outbreak have been strange, to say the least, and as data rolls in more people are becoming aware that there was quite a bit of overreaction from politicians, the media, and medical professionals. A small number of people are starting to focus on the economic situation and...Read More
Pantera Capital chief executive officer Dan Morehead has predicted a 50% chance the price of bitcoin (BTC) will hit $115,000 by August next year. In a recent letter to investors, Morehead said: “If the new supply of bitcoin is cut in half (with the May 12 halving), all else being equal, the price should rise.”...Read More
The novel COVID-19 pandemic disrupted gold distribution in Q1 2020, while the demand saw a serious increase, primarily in the west. At the same time, most central banks continued amassing large quantities of the precious metal. Gold Demand During The COVID-19 Crisis With the unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of the...Read More
Bitcoin’s price increased substantially over the past few days, breaking a lot of important resistance levels on its way up. The cryptocurrency touched $9,500 but has since retraced to its current trading price at around $8,900. In any case, this staged it for a full recovery from the mid-March selloff while equity markets are yet...Read More
Top global assets closed the month of April in the green, with Bitcoin coming through as the best-performing asset of April. BTC was up roughly 34%, rising from the $6,400 range at the start of the month to just over $8,700 on the last day. The S&P 500 gained 12.7% while gold rallied by $6.7%...Read More
The latest positive price developments in the cryptocurrency scene have helped Bitcoin to reclaim its position as the best performing asset in 2020. BTC is currently beating the S&P 500 index, US 10 year treasury bonds, and even gold. BTC’s Recent Price Jump 2020 has been nothing but volatile for the cryptocurrency market. Looking at...Read More
Bitcoin’s stock-to-flow (S2F) model has become one of the most popular formulas based on monthly S2F and price data. It activated various analysts across the world as many have verified the actual relationship between Bitcoin’s price and its stock-to-flow ratio. Now, the analyst who originally came up with it has presented a new model that...Read More
A recent report by Bloomberg says it might be time for a 2017-like bull run for Bitcoin. According to the document, interest in BTC is increasing while the market is maturing in time for the 2020 Halving, winking at the previous event of the kind that took place in 2016. Becoming The Digital Gold, After...Read More
Bitcoin is reducing its correlation with the stock market, and is transitioning towards gold’s performance, a recent Bloomberg report claimed. Amid the current COVID-19 crisis, both assets will outperform equities and emerge as the most substantial gainers. Bitcoin To Join Gold The unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic jolted world economies and financial markets. The...Read More
Bitcoin made a serious move in the past few hours as its price soared up to above $7,720 in just a few minutes. Legacy markets followed as the S&P500, the Dow, as well as gold and oil are all trading in the green. Bitcoin Price Surges to $7,700 In a few quick hours, Bitcoin’s price...Read More
Bank of America (BofA) has a bullish view on gold and expects the prices of the precious metal to hit the $3,000 mark per ounce within the next 18 months, according to the bank’s latest report titled “The Fed can’t print gold.” Per the report, gold is the “ultimate store of value,” and the prices...Read More
In brief: Gold is thriving as the Feds and other global Central Banks continually print fiat to cushion against the possibilities of a recession. The IMF has warned that the world is on track to experience its worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1920s. Bitcoin and Crypto enthusiasts have been monitoring Gold in...Read More
Gold has crossed the $1,700 mark for the first time since 2012 as traders and investors seek wealth security in these times of economic uncertainty — headlined by the COVID-19 outbreak. The recent gains in the gold market coincide with pressures on Bitcoin, which has dropped from nearly $7,500 to about $6,800 within seven days....Read More
The number of Bitcoin addresses containing more than 0.01 BTC has increased substantially in the past two months. The question remains if the reason behind it is the upcoming Halving in May, the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or both. BTC Addresses Go Up The popular cryptocurrency monitoring resource, Glassnode Insights, provided a...Read More
For well over a month now, a great number of countries have been living under lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, central banks like the Fed, Bank of England (BoE), and European Central Bank (ECB) have funneled trillions into the hands of private financial incumbents. Despite the market carnage on March...Read More
Gold, one of the commodities largely used as a hedge against the volatility of traditional equities and financial markets, is trading at a price just 1% below its 8-years high. According to a portfolio manager at VanEck, however, the price is headed to at least $2,000. Gold Price At 1% Below 8-Years High Gold has...Read More
Mr. Qiao Wang, the co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Messari, Inc., said Sunday that Bitcoin’s total addressable market (TAM) might be approximately $20 trillion. If that’s the case, the Bitcoin price would surge to $1 million USD a coin. While that’s a welcome projection for Bitcoin holders, it might be a bit of a stretch....Read More
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID19) caused serious turmoil in the global financial markets. According to a report by VanEck Global, an ETF and Mutual Fund Manager, during this crisis so far, gold correlates with Bitcoin increasingly in the short-term. Gold Correlates With Bitcoin Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Gold and Bitcoin are two assets that...Read More
More and more financial experts are standing behind gold’s role in an upcoming economic turmoil. The merits and safe-haven status of the precious metal are aligning popular beliefs that it will outperform most (if not all) financial assets in the next few years. Gold To Stand Above All Whether or not the COVID-19 is the...Read More
The coronavirus continues to spread like wildfire, with almost a million people infected throughout the entire world. Gold and Bitcoin, however, are performing particularly well during the last two days. Their steady performance also comes in times when Wall Street crashes, summarizing a terrible first quarter, and thousands of people are losing their jobs. Gold,...Read More
After years of purchasing significant quantities of gold, the Central Bank of Russia will seize buying more as of April 1st. The country announced it yesterday without explaining the move. Local analysts, however, claimed that the nation already has a lot of gold stashed in reserves and might start selling to international investors because of...Read More
The global financial markets took a serious hit this month amid the growing fears of the spreading novel coronavirus (COVID-19). However, amid times of economic uncertainty, investors often turn to gold as a hedge to protect their portfolios. According to one model, the fair value of gold right now should be around $8,900, which is...Read More
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus caused a massive sell-off in traditional markets. However, cryptocurrencies also declined notably, causing many to question Bitcoin’s positioning as a safe-haven asset. According to the popular on-chain analyst, Willy Woo, the largest cryptocurrency, as well as gold, might have already started to decouple from traditional assets. Will Bitcoin And...Read More
