Gold

Liquid gold being poured into a cast to make a bullion bar at a Gold Reef City demonstration. Even the crucible glows under the immense heat. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)Gold

Paxos’ Tokenized Gold Futures Are Now Trading on FTX Exchange

Sebastian SinclairJan 14, 2020

For the first time, investors can trade gold-backed futures contracts on a leading crypto derivatives exchange. In addition to its spot market trading, PAX Gold is now available as perpetual and quarterly futures contracts on FTX.

Podcasts

Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset

Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 8, 2020

Ikigai’s Travis Kling looks at BTC's correlation to gold and crude in response to Iran missile strikes, plus SEC priorities and Congressional intrigue.

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Tether Says Its Newest Stablecoin Is Backed by Gold in Swiss Vault

Nikhilesh DeJan 23, 2020

Tether is issuing a new stablecoin as ERC-20 and TRC20 tokens, backing their price with one ounce of gold.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Price Will Be Golden in 2020 Thanks to Limited Supply, Increasing Use: Bloomberg Report

Paddy BakerJan 8, 2020

Bitcoin, like gold, is a limited asset that can't be easily increased to meet demand. Bloomberg analysts predict the price of both will rise this year.

Prices

Bitcoin May Follow Gold With Significant Price Breakout

Omkar GodboleJan 8, 2020

Bitcoin looks set to take a page out of gold's book and confirm a price breakout on the weekly chart.

Year in Review 2019

Store of Value Remains Crypto’s Best Use Case

Ryan Zurrer

Store of value was the most viable and desirable use case across crypto in 2019 and offers a basis to increase adoption in the second decade of crypto, says Ryan Zurrer of Dialectic.

Prices

Bitcoin Price Set to Outshine Gold and Stocks by Big Margin in 2019

Omkar Godbole

Despite the downtrend in the latter half of 2019, bitcoin is on track to significantly outperform gold and stocks.

Gold

Tradewind, Canadian Mint to Verify Origins of Precious Metals on Blockchain

Nathan DiCamillo

Tradewind Markets is tracking the geography, name and standards of mines that produce precious metals for the Royal Canadian Mint.

Gold

CoinShares, Blockchain Launch Gold Token Network on a Bitcoin Sidechain

William Foxley

Two years in the making and already backed by some $20 million in digitized gold, CoinShares announced the DGLD token Tuesday.

Investment

Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven Like Gold? These Four Charts Say Not Yet

Galen Moore

Market movements show us that bitcoin is not generally accepted as a safe-haven investment.

Australia

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

Daniel PalmerDanny Nelson

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

Derivatives

Liquidity Provider B2C2 Launches Gold Derivative Settled in Bitcoin

William Foxley

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.

Gold

Sharia Goldbugs: How ISIS Created a Currency for World Domination

Rachel Rose O'Leary

By trading oil using its own currency, ISIS planned to destabilize the US economy by forcibly decoupling the dollar from the oil business.

Crime

‘Gold-Backed’ Crypto Token’s Promoter Investigated by Florida Regulators

Leigh Cuen

Karatbars, issuer of a purportedly gold-backed crypto token, is under investigation by Florida regulators over links to a Miami “crypto bank.”

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