Comparing Bitcoin and Gold Investment 

The political and economic difficulties, the changes in global trade, dollar decline, currency exchange disputes, interest rates, and increasing pressure on equities resulted in market unpredictability that sent investors rushing for safe alternatives like gold. 

The yellow metal rose to over $1300 an ounce after the EU referendum in 2016. It became one of the favourite options of the buyers when the tariff hike announcement on US goods by China was made. 

The announcement supported other precious metals like silver, which was 0.1 per cent up to $1477 an ounce, but platinum progress was restricted by 1.5 per cent to $847.90 an ounce, and palladium declined 2.5 per cent.  

In July last year, the metal was trading around $1,362 - between $1300 to $1200, where some investors were highly optimistic about it; on the other hand, some analysts at the Fidante Partners claimed the metal is set to decline in the second quarter of 2019. 

The markets' sentiments through Google search state the yellow metal showed a negative momentum signal. It had a boom in Q1 2019, where the research by the firm states it is an overhyped situation, where many institutional investors have pulled it from their portfolio for other options. 

Even in the current situation, the demand for bars grew 4% in the last year, as per the WGC reports, where the physical funds increased by 2.9%. The ETF was most popular in Europe, where the commodity had exceptional growth of over 11.7% in the last 12 months. The holdings in the UK grew by 13.8 per cent and in Germany by 21.7 per cent. 

• The reports state that investment in property stocks outperformed equities in the last three months. 

• Crypto firm Grayscale found the younger generations are breaking trends and moving away from traditional options like precious metals, luxury assets, forex, and commodities to digital assets.  

• It claims an estimated $68 trillion of wealth swapping in the 25 years where dollars may be spent on uncorrelated assets like Bitcoin. 

• These digital firms say Bitcoin is the new gold.  

• The debate -yellow metal versus bitcoin continues as the global economies search for alternative safe exchange units for international trade. 

Digital is easy to adopt and offers transparent transactions where some investors find the virtual currency is the safest option, which replaced the dollar and gold during the global recession. Still, there are many drawbacks and risks associated with such options– like the growing number of cyber thefts, online frauds, hacking and misuse of technology.

Historians claim the yellow metal had been there for centuries, and it is one of the most traded units in the international markets that bailed out Britain from financial difficulties and was used to trade weapons from America. 

China continues to be the largest consumer, using it in jewellery, industrial processes, and central bank purchases. 

It is becoming popular in the Middle East, where strategists find great upside potential in yellow and white precious metals.