Prediction: Bitcoin to Rival Gold as a Store of Value in the Digital Age Thanks to Halving

The total market capitalization of gold is estimated to be above $7 trillion, which is over 38 times that of bitcoin at the moment. However, there are those that think that the cryptocurrency is a better store of value for our age than the precious metal. The latest take on the idea explains how the … Read more

More Than 77 Crypto Projects Claim to Be Backed by Physical Gold

The last few years have seen the creation of blockchain projects that claim to have tokens backed by physical gold. In October, Coinshares and Blockchain.com launched a digital gold token (DGLD) backed by physical gold that uses BTC’s security. Tether just announced a new token called tether gold (XAUT), which will be listed for trading … Read more

DIGITAL GOLD Launches Stablecoin and Market-leading Solution for Secure and Private Gold Ownership

September 10th, 2019, Singapore – The target of the Digital Gold platform is to digitalize physical gold and make it possible to transfer over the blockchain. GOLD stablecoins establish a digital link between a real-world asset (gold) and a gold-backed digital asset. DIGITAL GOLD released its product for both precious metals investors and blockchain communities … Read more

The Daily: Royal Mint Drops Digital Gold, Malta Issues Warning About Trading Platform

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. Also read: AMD Takes a Hit, Johnny … Read more

Study Provides an Interesting Look at Changing Bitcoin Narratives

Last week Nic Carter, the partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coinmetrics.io, published an interesting study that looks at the ever-changing narratives tied to Bitcoin technology. Carter and his fellow researcher Hasufly scraped up a lot of data stemming from Bitcointalk.org posts over the years that highlight some of the community-derived visions of … Read more