RE: a BIT of gold?17 Feb 2021 09:13
Agree Goldnome - to add my views: bitcoin is unlike gold in that gold is physical, and the will be a finite limit, bitcoin maybe at the moment... but you can't create gold, legally or illegally, you have to find and mine it. You can wear gold and use in all sorts of product manufacturing, you can't bitcoin. You can buy and sell goods with bitcoin at the speed of light (well sort of, but you get my drift), you can't with gold. Bitcoin will be far more used as a currency, and is global but linked to nothing other than the coins themselves, but they can be created although stated to be limited. USD for example is linked/valued to USA so not global- as are other currencies. Bitcoin could become almost worthless or the sky is the limit to an extent (there is a finite amount of people who will gamble on it), and still used massively as currency, same with all crypto. In my view, gold will never be worthless, nor will businesses as they are a mix of assets and possibilities. I traded Bitcoin/crypto but for years, but always as a side activity, and am always prepared to lose the lot- I would never do this with my other investments.