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Financial analyst and portfolio manager Karel Mercx has officially declared the "digital gold" debate over, arguing that the economic reality proves investors are choosing physical metals over the "digital experiment.". origin »
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Bitcoin (BTC) has been known as “digital gold” for more than ten years. It has been a hedge against inflation, a place to keep value, and a symbol of the crypto movement for a long time.
2025-9-15 18:20 | |
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While digital gold made substantial return, things are still too complicated
2024-10-9 03:01 | |
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Bitcoin's potential as 'digital gold' could draw new investors, with ETFs and futures showing market maturity despite recent volatility.
2024-4-8 19:17 | |
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Ever since losing around 80% of its value from its all-time high, Bitcoin has been questioned as a store of value and a digital equal to gold. The digital currency still records the best performance for any asset across the last decade, but critics are fast to point out past year’s losses. Related Reading: Crypto […]
2022-10-5 21:35 | |
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Bitcoin’s comparison as “merely” digital gold demonstrates that legacy financial bureaucrats are in for a rude awakening.
2021-3-29 17:37 | |
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Bitcoin has become extremely popular in 2020, on the back of the store of value, safe haven asset, and digital gold narratives. The digital gold story has taken center stage recently, as the precious metal’s bullish momentum fizzled out and the cryptocurrency market took off.
2020-12-4 04:00 | |
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Red and Gold, not Red and Yellow. China is leading the race for the first central bank-backed digital currency. However, the term "backed," might not be what most people expect. The People's BanThe post China could back their digital yuan with something unexpected - Gold appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-2 14:30 | |
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Coinspeaker The Real Digital GoldKaratbars International has created the perfect continuum between real gold, pocket-ready cash, and digital cryptocurrencies allowing investors elegantly transit between modern digital assets and physical gold.The Real Digital Gold
2019-5-30 17:48 | |
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Digix’s gold-backed digital token has been added to crypto custodian BitGo as demand increases for cryptocurrency to be pegged to the value of gold. Announced today, DGX has been added to BitGo’s Digital Currency Support with Enterprise Access.
2018-10-30 02:55 | |
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CryptoNinjas Today, Digix, the smart token company that sells redeemable digital gold tokens (DGX) announced today that DGX is now supported on BitGo with enterprise access. BitGo is a leader in institutional-grade cryptocurrency security and custodial services, with integrations to.
2018-10-29 18:05 | |
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Malta Digital Exchange and Canamex Gold reached an agreement under which MDX will list Canamex’s security tokens on its platform.
2018-10-29 14:15 | |
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Reuters reports that Britain’s Royal Mint has halted plans to launch a digital gold token after a partnership with US exchange group CME failed and the UK government vetoed a plan to have the tokens traded on a crypto exchange.
2018-10-29 02:46 | |
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Britain’s Royal Mint, a wholly government-owned mint whose primary objective is to create gold and silver coins for the state, will not be launching its gold-backed cryptocurrency any time soon, as the U.
2018-10-29 02:00 | |
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A cryptocurrency exchange based in Europe, Quidax, has launched its digital asset exchange in Nigeria, aiming to educate the residents about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The exchange will allow users to buy and sell six cryptocurrencies, which include Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ripple. The platform will, however, expand to support more […]
2018-10-29 01:58 | |
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The UK’s Royal Mint has canceled the launch of its gold-backed cryptocurrency after its failed partnership with Chicago-based CME Group. The government denied other plans to trade the tokenized gold assets on a cryptocurrency exchange.
2018-10-26 18:00 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, we cover the U. K. Royal Mint’s decision to freeze a plan to issue digital gold tokens. We also look at a new Australia Post ID verification service, as well as a warning by the Maltese financial regulator about a cryptocurrency investment platform.
2018-10-26 16:50 | |
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Our first blockchain conference is fast approaching, so what better time to take a moment to delve into one the more controversial aspects plaguing the cryptocurrency industry: stablecoins. Stablecoins are a special kind of digital asset.
2018-10-26 15:51 | |
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CoinSpeaker UK Government Vetoes Royal Mint’s Plans for Digital Gold RMG due to Market Conditions A plan to create a crypto asset representing physical gold holdings proposed by Royal Mint was blocked by the UK government.
2018-10-26 14:47 | |
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Cryptocurrency could make a surprise showing at the 2020 Olympic Games. At least, that’s what some XRP hodlers are hoping. An online petition to the International Olympic Committee has raised over 13,800 signatures to “make XRP the official cryptocurrency of the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
2018-10-26 00:09 | |
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The U. K. ’s Royal Mint plans to create a digital token backed by physical gold has been shelved after U. S. -based derivatives exchange, the CME, dissolved a partnership between the two entities and the government stepped in to block proposed trading on a cryptocurrency exchange.
2018-10-25 22:00 | |
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Last month, Organo Gold announced that it had reached an agreement with Digital Skynet. The two companies will collaborate to form a joint venture that is yet to be named. The highlight of the deal, however, was the appointment of Holton Buggs.
2018-10-25 03:39 | |
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CryptoNinjas Digix, a Singapore based company that sells redeemable digital gold tokens (DGX) and SilverGoldBull (SGB) today announced a new partnership that will complement and strengthen the products and services both companies provide.
2018-10-25 19:17 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Over the decade-long history of Bitcoin, the popular digital asset has been called everything from a money launder’s tool to the first-ever truly global currency. But, although Bitcoin’s definition has undoubtedly changed over the years due to the whims of investors and industry leaders, many still believe that BTC is on the cusp of becoming digital gold.
2018-10-21 14:57 | |
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Venezuela’s President Tells Citizens To Invest In Gold And The Petro Crypto Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, has been reported by the local media outlet Noticiero Digital to go to television and ask workers to invest in gold and in the Petro, the new state-backed cryptocurrency which will allegedly be backed by Venezuelan oil. […]
2018-10-19 22:14 | |
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Canada’s IAMGOLD has invested in fintech company EmTech, which operates a gold supply chain system and is working on a digital token platform.
2018-10-19 14:10 | |
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Blockvest is being sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for making false claims that the regulator’s approval for its planned ICO. The regulator is looking for an injunction against the defendant in return for all the financial gains of its ICO activities.
2018-10-15 18:00 | |
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Prices on Wall St and crypto moved almost in tandem again this week when both suffered their worst 24-hour performance for months. The S&P index and BTC/USD were both shaved of over 5% between late Wednesday and Thursday and still no sign of bitcoin behaving like 'digital gold'.
2018-10-13 19:00 | |
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Argo, A UK-Based Provider Of Cryptocurrency Mining services, Has Announced The Launch Of Bitcoin [BTC] On Its Platform From November 1st. Now, the most popular digital asset will join the likes of ether, Bitcoin Gold, ETC, Zcash, Komodo, and Horizen as part of Argo’s services aimed at aspiring crypto miners who are less tech-savvy. With […]
2018-10-12 18:31 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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Life in Venezuela is anything but. Last year, the South American nation of 32 million led the world with 652% inflation and this year the economic turmoil is even worse. As of September 2018, the annual inflation was estimated at 200,000% and International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it could spike to a mindboggling 1,000,000% by December.
2018-10-10 22:30 | |
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In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, images circulating online show Pantera Capital’s Digital Asset Fund had a lifetime-to-date performance of minus 40% as of the end of August, Bittrex has announced the delisting of Bitshares, Bitcoin Gold, and Bitcoin Private, and Indian cryptocurrency exchange, Bitbns, has been accused of falsifying its trade volume.
2018-10-8 22:15 | |
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There are many ways to buy or exchange cryptocurrency for fiat money: exchange services, crypto exchanges, as well as exchanges through private individuals. Unprotected transactions and high commissions are the first thing that digital gold owners can face, as well as people who are just making their first steps into the cryptocurrency world.
2018-10-4 08:49 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Analysts from investments ratings firm Morningstar have stated that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will never be a threat to gold as a store of value. Bitcoin Outperforms Gold on Almost All Fronts Many in the cryptocurrency space believe that digital assets could represent the ultimate store of value.
2018-10-2 01:00 | |
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Emergent Technology Holdings LP (EmTech) has created a blockchain-powered supply chain platform that tracks gold, from a mine to a storage facility. The company has also developed a digital currency, G-Coin that is backed by gold.
2018-10-1 21:43 | |
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Swiss asset management company Tiberius Group AG, which currently manages around $350 million in assets, is going to introduce a cryptocurrency backed by seven metals, Bloomberg reported on September 28, 2018.
2018-9-29 15:00 | |
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A Swiss-based asset management firm, Tiberius Group AG, is introducing a new product to the crypto markets: metal backed tokens. The new product will be a digital token that is backed by seven metals and will be first offered to prospective investors starting on October 1.
2018-9-29 10:30 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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A blockchain analyst observed this week that one of the earliest miners of Bitcoin (BTC) has been cashing out a crypto fortune (approx. 30,000 bitcoins) up until the height of crypto mania in January 2018 when the digital gold was trading near $20,000 USD.
2018-9-29 23:00 | |
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Hyperion Exchange, a subsidiary of Global Blockchain, has signed an MOU with Kinesis Money, a company offering a unique monetary system based on digital gold and silver currencies. The Kinesis Monetary System is comprised of two digital currencies.
2018-9-28 02:43 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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“Bitcoin Doesn’t Even Need A Use Case To Be Valuable” On Wednesday afternoon, Mike Novogratz, a well-recognized cryptocurrency proponent and former institutional investor, made a surprise appearance on CNNMoney’s “Markets Now” segment to discuss “The Future Of Money.
2018-9-27 03:46 | |
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Blockchain is enabling the tokenization of physical commodities such as oil (Venezuela’s petro token), real estate and gold (Ekon coin). CARAT token is making its debut this week on Taiwan-based exchange Hotbit and it enables investors to hold digital coins that are backed by real diamonds.
2018-9-27 23:00 | |
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Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he/she might be deserving of the Nobel Prize in economics for inventing Bitcoin (BTC), the nascent digital coin that is currently rescuing crypto-adopting Venezuelans from the abyss.
2018-9-22 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin is in the news, and we’ve all seen the stories about early investors who’ve made millions and driven away in new lambos. So it’s only natural that people who haven’t invested already are wondering if they should.
2018-9-21 19:18 | |
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The fact of the matter is that many of us know more about Bitcoin (BTC) and the rest of our favorite digital assets, than we know about our local fiat currencies. We simply found our local currency being used and went along with the story that it was how the world operated.
2018-9-16 17:38 | |
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Nathaniel Popper is a New York Times journalist who covers fintech and cryptocurrencies. He is is the author of the bestseller, “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money.
2018-9-14 07:00 | |
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The launch of stablecoins is viewed as a palliative measure to decrease the impact of the recent crisis with Bitcoin, some have even described it as ETFs replacement for a short time. However, Barry Eichengreen, a professor of Economics UC Berkeley has said that stablecoins are not the way to fix the problem.
2018-9-12 13:30 | |
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