DeFi Protocol Cega's New Options Product Marries Gold, Ether to Offer Up to 83% Yield

The new offering called "Gold Rush" offers a trifecta of decent return, market exposure and protection from losses.

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As Dow Limps into the New Year, Gold Is Regaining Its Shine

The price of gold extended its rally to six days on Tuesday, as demand for risk assets waned ahead of New Year celebrations. The post As Dow Limps into the New Year, Gold Is Regaining Its Shine appeared first on CCN.com

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Peter Schiff is Right in One Thing: Bitcoin Became Uncorrelated Asset

Coinspeaker Peter Schiff is Right in One Thing: Bitcoin Became Uncorrelated AssetAs U. S. stocks recently hit new all-time high, famous gold bug Peter Schiff provided his sarcastic remark that Bitcoin price doesn’t correlate with the performance of other asset classes.

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Gold Value Surges Above $1,500 as Bitcoin Price Rises to $7,330 BTC/USD

Gold has just surged above $1,500 as investors are getting ready for the new year. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) is getting a nice post Christmas boost at $7,330. One of the most important things for investors is to understand whether the U.

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SIBEX and Paxos to Facilitate Gold Trading Across a Blockchain

SIBEX a crypto liquidity provider is partnering with New York-based cryptocurrency company Paxos in order to improve peer-to-peer (P2P) over the counter (OTC) trading for physical gold. The news was released by enterprise times on December 16.

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Digital Gold Rush: Bitcoin Mining Boom Coming to American West

Sentiment in the crypto industry is generally bearish at the moment as bitcoin takes another turn south and threatens to drop into the $6k region again. BTC mining outfits are unperturbed, however, and are heading to America’s west in droves as a new digital gold rush begins.

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Bitcoin Mining in North America: A New Gold Rush in the New World

Where, why and how bitcoin mining operations are emerging.

The post Bitcoin Mining in North America: A New Gold Rush in the New World appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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The new Texas gold rush: Bitcoin mining

China has long dominated the Bitcoin mining industry, but a recent merger between two Western mining companies will make a small area of Texas home to the world's largest Bitcoin mine.

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Bullish for Bitcoin? World Gold Council Report Shows 61% Trust Hard Money Over Fiat

A new report by the World Gold Council shows that there is global demand for harder forms of money than fiat currencies. Such demand points to a bright future for Bitcoin given that it represents an even harder form of money than the precious metal.

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Bitcoin Mining IPO Could be the New Gold Rush

Bitcoin mining giants Bitmain Technologies and Canaan Creative seem to have found a new area of competition — launching a U. S. IPO. Both companies are set to go head to head in trying to one-up the other in what could be the first-ever crypto-related public offering in the United States.

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Bitcoin against the world; centralized finance and gold get angry

Bitcoin brings together scores of people. Cryptographers interested in a new wave of technology, free-market utilitarians bent on a new method of wealth distribution, and libertarians seeking freedom The post Bitcoin against the world; centralized finance and gold get angry appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Peter Schiff Fires Back After Facebook Crypto Head Calls Bitcoin “Digital Gold”

Last week, speaking at the New York Times DealBook Conference, David Marcus, the head of Facebook’s cryptocurrency projects, called Bitcoin “digital gold,” while simultaneously arguing that the coin is not a good currency for transactions: “I don’t think of Bitcoin as a currency.

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Gold Plunges After Dow Records New High; Why Bitcoin May Rise

Thursday wasn’t a great day for gold holders. During the day’s trading session, the precious metal cratered by its standards, falling by $23 — a 1. 5% downward move — from $1,490 to $1,468 in a relatively spectacular fashion.

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Bitcoin and Gold Feeling the Pressure while Stock Market Makes a Fresh Record

Today, the market has hit yet new highs. The benchmark S&P 500 Index, up 22. 7% so far this year, is on track to rise for a fifth week in a row while Nasdaq is eyeing its sixth straight week of gains.

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Bitcoin Not a Currency According to Facebook’s Libra Lead

David Marcus, head of Facebook’s Libra project, doesn’t see Bitcoin as a form of currency, stating that it’s digital gold. Bitcoin Not a Medium of Exchange Marcus was speaking at the New York Times Deal Book Conference in the Big Apple yesterday when he made his remarks.

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Tradewind Digital Platform Uses Blockchain to Track Provenance of Gold

Tradewind Markets launched a new system to track the provenance of its physical gold and other precious metals

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Bitcoin Pioneer Max Keiser: China’s DCEP Cryptocurrency Token Will Be Gold-Backed

According to Max Keiser, a financial commentator, China’s cryptocurrency DCEP will be backed by gold and not the US dollar. He also noted that gold is currently making new significant highs against flat currencies.

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What Gold’s Massive Rally Tells Us About the Stock Market

Gold and stocks are rallying in lockstep with each other. Appetite for gold is driven by safe-haven demand despite surging stock prices. Analysts believe the gold bulls still have the upper hand in 2019.

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China’s ‘DCEP’ Cryptocurrency Will be Gold-Backed: Max Keiser

After a period of absence, RT’s Max Keiser is back and his commentary on the current state of the global economy is as colorful as ever. The bitcoin bull also had some interesting things to say about China’s gold hoards and its new central bank-backed cryptocurrency.

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Nearly 1/3 of Americans Believe This Myth About the US Dollar

Nearly one-third of Americans falsely believe that the US dollar is backed by gold, and 70% don’t know what is backing it. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to US financial illiteracy, however.

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Paxos Gold Opens Up for Trading on HitBTC and Bithumb Exchanges, Holders Can Earn Interest

The New York-based crypto exchange Paxos has recently revealed that its gold-backed asset Paxos Gold will be listed in two additional exchanges. According to the company, HitBTC and Bithumb will receive the token.

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Bitcoin Options Market: 10% Chance BTC Trades at $20,000 in June

The recent Bitcoin (BTC) jump from $7,300 to $9,700 has renewed bullish expectations. Just three days ago, you had analysts calling for a return to the $3,000 lows — gold bug Peter Schiff even noted that $2,000 was in the cards; now, all eyes are on new all-time highs for Bitcoin.

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Gold Price Smashes Through $1,500: 2 Reasons Why

The price of gold rallied above $1,500 on Thursday, as dismal U. S. data reasserted fears about the world’s largest economy heading for a soft landing. Futures on December gold delivery peaked at $1,505.

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New #DropGold Ad Campaign by Grayscale “It’s Time To Go Bitcoin” Gets Novogratz Comments

There is a fierce legitimacy battle happening right now between gold and Bitcoin. One of the main reasons for that is the current macro-economical situation of the world, which is uncertain. This has prompted Grayscale Investment, an investment crypto company considered to be the largest crypto asset manager in the world, to give its opinion […]

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New Bitcoin ETF Proposal Comes from Kryptoin and World Gold Council, SPDR GLD Executives

Jason Toussaint, a former manager of the World Gold Council, has recently united with the asset manager Kryptoin to create a new Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). Now, the company has filed with the U.

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Time to Buy Bitcoin, Stop Yelling about Gold, Says New Grayscale Commercial

Grayscale Investments keeps promoting its #DropGold campaign in favor of Bitcoin investment, releases its second promotional video

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New Bitcoin ETF Proposal Filed With SEC by Gold Fund Veteran

Kryptoin Investment Advisors applied with the SEC to launch a Bitcoin ETF

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Former World Gold Council Exec Develops New Bitcoin ETF

The portfolio manager behind SPDR Gold Shares is developing a bitcoin ETF, but winning SEC approval remains a holy grail in the nascent space.

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What Bitcoin’s “Horrible” Chart says, Just Lower prices or New Lows?

Nothing has changed since late September when BTC price dropped to $7,800 level. Bitcoin is still hovering around $8,000 and the trading volume is also stuck at $200 million. Source: Coin360 However, Bitcoin detractors have taken this time to attack the leading cryptocurrency yet again.

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Bitcoin Price at $2,000? Peter Schiff Criticized for Extreme Predictions

Bitcoin price might free fall to $2,000 – this is what gold proponent Peter Schiff sees in the charts. But the extreme prediction raised criticisms. Gold Bug Peter Schiff Sees Doom for Bitcoin BTC is at crossroads once again, after breaking below $8,000.

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Dutch National Bank Says Gold Can Re-Start Economy in Case of Total Collapse

An article found on the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) website has surprised many in the crypto space, with its bold claim that “If the entire system collapses, the gold stock provides a collateral to start over.

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Gold Price Is Plunging Again: 2 Reasons Why

The price of gold plunged anew on Friday, as risk appetite fueled equities at the expense of safe-haven assets following news of U. S. -China trade progress. Futures on December gold delivery tumbled all the way down to $1,478.

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Australia’s Gold Mint Is Backing a Crypto Token Based on Ethereum

The government-owned Perth Mint is backing a new digital token aimed to allow investors to trade and settle gold in real time.

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VanEck: Bitcoin improves portfolio upside, potential as “digital gold”

VanEck, known as the first U. S. investment manager to bet on gold before it broke from the gold standard, produced a report pitched at institutional investors arguing Bitcoin has “monetary value” and can improve portfolio upside.

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B2C2 OTC and Crypto Liquidity Provider Debuts New Gold Derivatives Product Using Bitcoin

B2C2– an over the counter trading platform has launched the first gold trading using a bitcoin product. The crypto liquidity provider B2C2's new product will be trading against bitcoin. This is what the firm describes as an important step in the safe-haven trading space.

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Bitcoin is Currently The Most Undervalued Asset: Crypto Management Firm’s Founder Travis Kling

“BTC is the most undervalued asset in the world today,” while equities, bonds, precious metals, real estate, and venture capital are all near their all-time highs, says Ikigai founder Travis Kling. Hitting New Peaks The yellow metal, gold recently jumped to a fresh six-year high and is now trading near this level. Experts believe the […]

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New gold-backed Ethereum token is guaranteed by Australian government reserves

Australia‘s Perth Mint, one of the world’s largest refineries, is today launching a gold-backed Ethereum token guaranteed by the government of Western Australia. Marketing materials shared with Hard Fork claim the Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) is the first gold token on a public blockchain backed and guaranteed by government reserves.

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New Ethereum token is backed by gold reserves guaranteed by Australian government

Australia‘s Perth Mint, one of the world’s largest refineries, is today launching a gold-backed Ethereum token guaranteed by the government of Western Australia. Marketing materials shared with Hard Fork claim the Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) is the first gold token on a public blockchain backed and guaranteed by government reserves.

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Liquidity Provider B2C2 Launches Gold Derivative Settled in Bitcoin

The U.K.-licensed firm's new product allows clients to synthetically trade gold against bitcoin and aims to capitalize on a growth in haven assets.

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B2C2 Launches New Gold Derivative Priced and Settled in Bitcoin

B2C2’s new gold-Bitcoin derivative pays out in BTC

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Gold Price Attracts More Bids as U.S. Services Downturn Adds to Recession Fears

The price of gold rallied Thursday, extending its winning streak to three days after another batch of soft data sparked a fresh wave of haven buying in the market. Gold Extends Rally December gold futures climbed all the way to a session high of $1,525.

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Gold Price Outshines Risk Assets as U.S. Stocks Approach Critical Inflection Point

The price of gold rallied Wednesday, extending its recovery to two days after stocks plunged over dismal economic data. Gold Rallies; Silver Follows Bullion shot above $1,500 a troy ounce, reaching a high of $1,511.

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Vaultoro revamps interface, releasing Lightning-based tokenized gold

Vaultoro revamps interface, releasing Lightning-based tokenized gold - CryptoNinjas Vaultoro, the market’s first gold crypto-hedging solution since 2015, released today a revamped version of its commodities exchange based on a new C++ modular engine optimized for high-frequency trading, clocking up to 1.

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Vaultoro Presents a Revamped Interface and Will Soon Be Releasing a Lightning-based Tokenized Gold

Coinspeaker Vaultoro Presents a Revamped Interface and Will Soon Be Releasing a Lightning-based Tokenized GoldVaultoro releases today a revamped version of its commodities exchange based on a new C++ modular engine optimized for high-frequency trading, clocking up to 1.

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Gold Price Is Crashing: 3 Reasons Why

The price of gold plunged anew on Monday, extending last week’s slump as the U. S. dollar notched fresh two-year highs and stocks resumed their upward momentum. Futures on December gold delivery reached a session low of $1,472.

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World’s First-Ever Hybrid Cryptocurrency SGC (Secured Gold Coin) Releases Its Whitepaper

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 28, 2019: Aimed at giving a tough challenge to the existing cryptocurrencies with limited or nil functionality, SGC (Secured Gold Coin) has released its long-awaited whitepaper.

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Gold Fractal Predicted Bitcoin Distribution, Up Next Is Two Years of Sideways

Throughout much of 2019, Bitcoin’s store of value narrative took a back seat to a new narrative developing around looming economic recession and the asset’s scarcity making it a safe haven asset much like gold.

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Bitcoin And Bonds: Why Are These Two Assets Moving Together?

Bitcoin (BTC) is often described as “digital gold”, but it could soon be described as “digital bonds. ” New data suggest an interesting relationship developing between Bitcoin and the yields on government-issued debt.

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United States’ Congress schedules new meeting with SEC officials to discuss cryptocurrencies

Recently, Bitcoin was in the spotlight after the Securities and Exchange Commision’s (SEC) Chairman, Jay Clayton, said that the digital gold would be required to be regulated, before it and a host of cryptocurrencies can be traded on a major exchange.

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