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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than An Ounce of Gold for the First Time Ever

The digital currency continues to trade at all-time highs






One unit of so-called digital gold is now worth more than an ounce of the real thing.
The price of a single bitcoin US:BTCUSD  rose to an all-time high of $1,251.32 on Thursday, surpassing the price of a single ounce of gold, according to CoinDesk’s bitcoin price index. Bitcoin traded on certain Chinese exchanges briefly overtook gold in early February. But this is the first time in the digital currency’s eight-year history that it has done so according to most widely used bitcoin-price benchmarks.
Many bitcoin watchers, including Charles Hayter, chief executive officer and founder of CryptoCompare, a company that provides data and analytics about digital currencies, have pointed out that bitcoin has a positive correlation with gold. They argue that investors are becoming more comfortable with the digital currency, making them more willing to buy it when more conventional markets like stocks are under duress. NOW CHECK THIS OUT!




1 comment:

  1. And like the saying goes, 'You ain't seen nothin' yet!' This is something you are gonna wish you got involved with in the early stages.

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