RE: If you believe in coinsillium20 Jan 2026 12:52
Playtime - I partly agree.
I think new currencies will emerge, digital, but each nation will want its own. Not one for the whole planet. Is this why central banks are buying so much gold? To back new digital currencies? I mean if money is purely digital then there is no dodging tax, no cash in hand….Government will know everything about your finances. My barber - he only takes cash. Wife’s hairdresser- same. The guy that changed my bathroom - cash please.
If that is the case (governments need gold to back a new digital currency) then the demand for gold will only grow.
Spitfire, history suggests you are wrong. Yes a pullback should happen in gold and silver - and the markets are likely to rally to a blow off top. The markets will then crash and gold and silver take off again as a lot of stock market money rotates into monetary metals.
Gold and silver have been so low for so long, this is not anywhere near the end. We are only JUST starting a bull era in gold and silver. Not ending it. To say they are overvalued - you don’t get it. Silver has been artificially shorted and held down for decades. And now China isn’t releasing it so easily to the west. The west needs it for EV cars, solar panels, AI data centres and production is willing to pay higher for safe supply of silver so production doesn’t grind to a halt.
What does all this mean for bitcoin? I don’t knowZ Typically it follows the Nasdaq (tho recently this has not been the case). So who knows. Maybe Bitcoin will be seen as a safe haven like monetary metals?
Personally I suspect (but am not confident) that Bitcoin will continue to follow the Nasdaq - that’s why there could be a rally (when gold and silver pullback and the markets put in new highs). But longer term I’m not confident.. in Bitcoin or the stock markets.