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Bitcoin investors are now moving to gold citing the cryptocurrency’s issues with liquidity and store of value.


Read more here: https://www.unblock.news/news/bitcoin-investors-now-moving-to-gold

Some people call this news a fud. Even if it's true, I don't think we'll see a big movement at the price.

On the other hand, we see that VC funding is increasing even though we face a bearish season. Not surprising, speculation and maybe realization of blockchain potential clicked those VC. I still think people who want to risk a lot will choose crypto instead of gold or any other asset. It's a high-risk high return investment, after all.

it is not FUD, it is bullshit. there is a difference.

bitcoin investors don't go for gold, they either already have gold as their other investment for diversification purposes or they don't. what they never do is to sell bitcoin to buy gold instead! not to mention that at this point, everyone is either sucking their greed up and are accumulating bitcoin before the big rise begins or are greedy and are waiting for their dream price to buy bitcoin.

The current situation of the Bitcoin market is not as good as what happened in the past year, but investors did not fully move to gold. Bitcoin remains the top choice in investing. The value of Bitcoin and also the fluctuations in the price of bitcoin can be used by investors to gain far more attractive profits.

I've read of that news yesterday and it's just nothing to me. I won't click that article and for sure it's the owners link.

There's no point of covering what the bitcoin holders do, you didn't even know on how many people in the world are actually holding bitcoin. What these people do is this

That must be just a small percentage of investors moving to gold. For the past 10years bitcoin have outperformed gold when it comes to return it f investment (i.e profit) . Those moving to gold might be the short term investors who taught bitcoin will continue increasing without experiencing some corrections

How do you know that people moved from bitcoin to gold.Did they signed a disclaimer that they are migrating from BTC to gold due to liquidity issue. Anyway I am not against for investing in gold but I do not think people are migrating from bitcoin to gold and if someone do not want to invest in BTC then there are still multiple opportunities better performing than gold.

How many people are there in this forum? maybe more than 1000 people and I can make sure they have investments in bitcoin. Did they switch and be included in the article? I guess not. When I read the article he said investors are bitcoin which means all bitcoin investors, and that is a very impossible thing. Maybe it would be better if the title of the article was some bitcoin investors switched to investing in gold.

there is no issue with liquidity nor with store of value when you are talking about bitcoin.
your whole article also seems like your imagination on steroids trying to make up stories about what bitcoin investors do and don't do. what I don't know is why you chose gold! are you investing in gold yourself and are advertising it here?
I don't know anybody who moves from bitcoin to gold. the other direction is happening every day though meaning people move from gold to bitcoin as they see the potential. specially these days that price is at the bottom and is a good time to buy.

In recent days gold has shown a big steep growth in the market. As of now we haven't seen any price increase in the growth of cryptocurrencies. Some has predicted that the cryptocurrency market will begin to flourish by the second quarter of the year. Maybe some of the users will move towards gold for now and will return back. Importantly going to gold and returning back is a kind of trading.

Warning - "Goldbug shills at work!"

For those people who do not understand - Gold bug is a term frequently employed in the financial sector and among economists in reference to persons who are extremely bullish on the commodity gold as an investment and or a standard for measuring wealth.

These people will employ tactics like this to push <hype> Gold as a attractive alternative to Bitcoin, in the hope that people will be foolish enough to sell their coins and to invest in Gold.  ;D

Sorry Goldbugs, we see right through you.  ;)

says who? i've personally known multiple coiners who sold bitcoins to invest in gold at various points in time. they figured bitcoin was near the top or was in a bear market and gold had better prospects (since it hasn't pumped since 2011).

a lot of bitcoiners put their money (including BTC) into whatever they think will generate profit. that's why pirate40's ponzi scheme was so big. it's why altcoins are so big. i think you give bitcoin investors too much credit. ;)

As for me, the best variant is to invest in some cool projects, real estate, gold and promising cryptocurrency. But also tokens from top 20 is also nice!

Many media or article makers like that spread FUD about Bitcoin so that the price of Bitcoin declined, for example like the article you have read, because they don't want to see the price of Bitcoin as high as last year, so many people produce articles that don't know the progress of Bitcoin in the future.

Articles like this often surface when there aren't any good news for bitcoin. Store of value and liquidity is not an issue for bitcoin. If anything, gold's liquidity is way worse compared to bitcoin, though the latter's volatility prove that it's somewhat hard to use for store-of-value knowing how easy and fast devaluation could happen for bitcoin. As always, I expect negative news to circulate once bitcoin performs poorly. It's fine for me as long as fundamentals are catching up, which could provide a stronger and sturdier base should there be a bull run in the next years or so.

I don't personally know of anyone who is making this switch.

Bitcoin is fundamentally very much like gold, but it is more convenient. I'd argue that on a retail level, bitcoin is probably much more liquid and the spreads are much lower than gold, which takes lots of effort to transport, verify the purity of, and buy/sell.

The only way that gold can be as liquid as bitcoin at this point is through allocated/unallocated gold accounts, but then you aren't holding the real thing.

So tbh, unless there is significant, backed proof of this happening, I'm not buying this story. On the contrary, I'd expect gold investors to look into bitcoin increasingly due to the fact that bitcoin is indeed decentralised and a long term hedge against inflation, and gold investors like this aspect of their investment.

I laughed when i read the title of this post beacuse as we all know, bitcoin is so down and is really won’t come back for more than a year now, maybe what you’re trying to say is that the investors are moving because they don’t have a house for selling it because of bitcoin. But seriously, I’m hoping and we are all hoping for bitcoin price to go up, but before that, we all need to have effort in promoting it.

I think they just earned a lot of money on Bitcoin at the beginning, so there was money to buy gold, the fact that the oldest is the strongest is a fact.

To be precise they’re moving to paper gold, which is NOT physical gold, that’s definitely going to hurt crypto because more money will be moved into nothing but a imaginary gold. Unless you’re talking about trading bitcoin for physical gold going offline, not trading some contract gold otc.

FUD is a bad thing in the current bear market, but the information he gives based on real statistics. China is one of the most developed countries in the Cryptocurrency, but currently, investors in this country are turning to invest in gold. According to statistics, against the punishment from China, China has accumulated gold letters and the amount of reserves in this country increases every day.

you are from that website, i think, as you are just posting that bogus news links one after another!

You don't need to compare the two of them because they have unique and good characteristics. They can give advantages as well as disadvantages, and even benefits! maybe some of investors but we can't blame them since bitcoin is in difficult situation. It is still recovering and i know that when bitcoin price becomes higher then they will surely go back to bitcoin. Well no one knows its just my opinion about this.

More investors will like to enter bitcoin after Fidelity launch
There is article on today Coindesk then Fidelity is going to launch in March
Investors needs secure platform to trade and store his funds .Fidelity is trustworthy so many of them will enter bitcoin
When all that shutdown chaos will end then Bakkt will  launch and will be more demand on bitcoin
Gold is gold .It is hedge to dollar so govs are investing in physical gold
I see many bitcoin gold comparison but it doesn't make sense to me

This is temporary.The investors are chaging their portfolio,including more secure assets,like goold,and selling the high "risk-high reward" assets like bitcoin.It's a trend and,like every other trend,it will change after 1 or maybe 2 years.

i know that there are many people that previously investing in bitcoin, but right now they quit investing on bitcoin and start to investing in another platform, like gold, gold is the great things to invest, because the price never down and it will free from inflation

nah not all are quitting because many people will remain a die hard bitcoin fanatic . they wont easily forgot that bitcoin once help them to earn better compared from other sources out there  .  we can safely say that people are now diversifying or adding some assets to thier current portfolio . thats why they pick gold because gold is verry simmilar to btc and its like the physical version   .


i see that his username is the same from the said site . id check the site and it looks legit , they also have other sources to back their article  . bogus or not ,this news cant cause panic because all of us are already get used to the price falls  .  just chill boi btc will be fine 

I think I will stay in investing in bitcoin because I know the change is coming where the price will gonna go up again. Even gold are very precious and very valuable in market I would rather stay in investing bitcoin than moving in gold.

Bitcoin investors now moving to gold because bitcoin price 2018 and beginning 2019 very dumping and cheapest market. Now they lost their interest in investing bitcoin, they are interested in gold.

indeed because the way to move to gold is the best and make a profit in crypto conditions today, so many investors are now moving to gold from last year until now

When most crypto is downtrending, every people will spreading FUD more frequently.
That's the risk of crypto and it's volatile value make it more worse !

But again , it's all depend on yourself, if you keep believe on crypto, just HOLD it !

yes because now bitcoin is still a big problem and bitcoin is now a rival to gold and gold the price continues to rise and profit compared to bitcoin

I also feel that kind of thing wants to move to gold just because bitcoin is not stable that's my reason and I think it's better for my bitcoin HODL and move to temporary gold

Then why the price of gold is not pumping higher, considering the volume of bitcoin hodlers?
I don’t believe on this one though gold is also a good investment but bitcoin is way more useful compare to gold. I’m a small investor of bitcoin and I’m glad to say that I still hold my bitcoin.

This is not true at all. The price of gold has been very volatile over the years, so when you say "the price never down" that's just nonsense. Of course, it isn't as volatile as bitcoin but there is no evidence to suggest that investors are moving away from bitcoin and into gold - that is just garbage.

yes those people who invest in gold is afraid of lose and they trying to minimize the risk on their investments. Its true that people are starting to invest into gold again and this is happen cause seems like usd is about to going down and also cause crypto and market stock are in bear seasons.

If we are patient enough, Bitcoin will become in the next couple of years a virtual gold. It just needs some time to arrive to maturiry, then btc will bw even better than the "classical" fold.

I don't think this is true. Generaly people who invest in Bitcoin and those who invest in gold are totaly different types of investors so I don't believe they would just switch to gold. I think they would choose some other asset.
Although it's traditional and will always have the value gold is also volatile and like with every investment you should accept certain risk and have some plan. And it's not tru at all that the price of gold never goes down, only the fluctuations are not so often and big like with Bitcoin.

LOL! This news is like a year old!

When bitcoin was skyrocketting was the time to move into gold... which I'm sure many were doing just that.

Now would be the time to start moving from GOLD to BTCBTC Baby!

Smart traders like Jeff Berwick (and people who follow him) made this movement about a year ago. Now it's probably not a good idea.

Bullshit.

Correct title is, Bitcoin investors own gold too.  I am a bitcoin investor and I am abandoning neither. The only thing I'm abandoning is FIAT. (slowly) If I had to choose between Gold and Bitcoin, I would choose Bitcoin because you can't buy your groceries with gold coins. Gold's use as a currency is non-existent and it is not coming back. It is over for gold.

Also true. Although I was only in Bitcoin 2013-2015 (since I saw more room for growth there) those 2 communities have very similar ideas, values and perspective. Don't let Peter Schiff tell you otherwise, many of the crypto crowd came from the gold buyers communities.

This is a very funny news. Bitcoin investors who really understand how invest in cryptocurrencies or Bitcoin to be specific will never leave Bitcoin investment to invest in gold. People moving away from bitcoin to Gold are just some immature investors or they are just novice investors. 

It is interesting how investors can move from volatile prices to gold. There is a huge difference between them.
In these cases, all I know is that if you want big profits, you should know how to risk. You have already waited until now, why now?

Van Eck just created pool to get public opinion. Majority of the people almost 80% going to move with bitcoin but how they move suddenly until btc increase. BTC price make onek kind controversy among with investors. Because they lose all trust and hope. So i think every people cannot move BTC to Gold at this moment.    

This is not news at all and this action is familiar with all investors looking to making profits out of they investment because once any commodity face price crises just like bitcoin you see investors looking for exit root and running into a more stable and profiting commodity and that is what is happening with bitcoin and gold.

Gold investors differ from BTC investors
Gold investors are looking for safety first and this is at the expense of high profits
The BTC investors are in contrast
If the BTC investors want to move to gold, it will not be with a loss
They must have won a lot. But the question
Will the profit rates in the gold trade achieve their ambitions compared to the BTC gain rates?

Yes it is a fact also but in one side we need to think about the cryptocurrency usage while Bitcoin at to be used by people at 2017 December you think which kind will be the best way of making money but into a situation gold is better than Bitcoin but gym with kind will be the best way of making money and saving for the future also.

Gold was before Bitcoin and in my opinion anything could happen. including now in. people are free to determine their investment according to the risk ratio they want. indeed gold is the safest investment instrument available,but bitcoin is also still a lot of devotees with volatile nature which is very easy to rise in price

The possibility that you find is investors who do not have a position in life investing, of course, all investors are smarter in terms of choosing, if they can have both why not, because both have the same value in the future, I strongly agree if the fiat currency left by investors ..

You have to know that in Middle Eastern countries, some countries there use gold as a payment method, it's called "dinar" they use gold for currencies because it's more stable and safer. but as an investment. Bitcoin users will not move just like that, especially gold already exists before Bitcoin is present, so the title of this thread will not happen at all

In my opinion, it is natural. Because they are investors and not crypto enthusiast. As long something profitable for them, they will invest into it. Actually that is what we must put on our mind, because be believer to a something wouldn't always give us better feedback.

there is a difference between hardcore investors (or better called traders) who are making money from investing their money constantly and with regular investors who are actually "investing" their money in something to make profit in long run.
a trader doesn't give a shit about what he is buying, yesterday it was bitcoin, today it is gold and tomorrow it will be something else like silver, stocks, an altcoin, and a ton of other things. they constantly move around not letting their money sit idle in some investment.
as a result you can't really say "bitcoin investors are moving to gold" because that is no what's happening.

Normally, investments are made to make money. The so-called beliefs are self-hypnotic, including those that call for permanent house rises.

my girlfriend keeps pushing me to dump some bitcoins for gold. she's just a classic case of noob sentiment. after more than a year of bear market, she thinks bitcoin must be dead and figures i should at least trade for some nice shiny rocks while i still can. :D

personally, i don't like gold because it's too difficult to transact with.


there's a lot of overlap between bitcoin and gold investors. they're both distrustful of government and fiat money and believe in the idea of hard money. what i've found is that gold bugs are very stubborn when it comes to bitcoin---they often act like dinosaurs. bitcoiners are more often open to investing in whatever's going up at the time.

Not all bitcoin investors switch, I think only some investors are afraid to switch. And that is natural, their fear of falling markets, but can only be partially diverted to keep assets from losing.

The development of the price of bitcoin is currently not in a good situation. some investors are frightened because they are afraid of experiencing much greater losses. they feel that gold is a safe investment. but not all of them, only a few parts because investment in the digital currency world is still attractive and has a high appeal for investors.

I think so is the Market bear Short term investment planning will never good profit without any panic.i know many people want invest in Bitcoin and quickly want to keep extra asset. Basically I'm afraid this people,and I want to tell something.bitcoin investment will makes profit but it's must needed long time.their tell gold but when their get him huge profitable.

This is nothing but a tell full of sound and fury signifying nothing,this are two different line of investment that never substitute each other, with different class of people, with different mentality and different age bracket of investors, the old school for gold and new school for crypto.

There are still many bitcoin investors who are even willing to add bitcoin coffers in their wallets. But there are also those who switch investments to gold, for fear of losing. Seeing a situation like this is not wrong when switching investments, because of the human nature that always wants to profit. I still believe that bitcoin still has a bright future, so I persevere.

- More precisely, they are trying to invest in these two assets in parallel because both have different advantages and disadvantages, both can be profitable and investors need to invest in both to optimize things but during this time, they will focus and turn to gold when the value of bitcoin is in the adjustment period, it still can not bring them profit. Continuing to invest in bitcoin may face risks, so they move to gold when the value of gold is quite stable, investing in it will be very good and can be profitable in the future.

I dumper over 100BTC and put it into gold and others have too

Oh really ? When was the time you've done that ?  100 btc is too much and you could move the price downwards all by yourself but your decision was bad because you didnt know that bitcoin is the only one asset that can give you a 4 to 6 times return and gold or other investment options cannot obviously do that . poor little guy :|

I sold an element for cash and purchased gold locally.

The majority of gold I purchased directly with BTC on silvergoldbull (shipped from Canada)

I did it when the price was significantly higher than it is now, bitcoin can possibly make you 4X - 6X profit but it can also wipe out 80% of wealth like it has currently.

Gold is currently at an all time high in 72 currencies, I am happy with my decission and sleep easy at night.

p.s also purchased a Lamborghi Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder with my profits too ;)

Love this one lol 😆

Gold is always been a investment in the real world and people even the crypto investors don't wanna lose the chance of having some gold on their volts so literally those people on the news only adding some part of their money from crypto to gold but the totality is still waiting to re invest in this community

This is a generalized version, and in fact only a few can do this. True crypt liters remain in it, buying each time something new from the market, those who are a little afraid for their money, buy gold, but still do not completely leave the market.

There is a strong possibility that some people who ae into cryptocurrency like Bitocin are moving to gold and this can be for many reasons they know and feel compleed to decide. Well, this can never be alarming as movement from one investment vehicle to another is just a natural occurence...there is no fixed strategy when you are an investor. In my opinion, maybe there are those who think that the bearish market is getting to be risky and they are looking for a less volatile investment tool like gold. However, when things are good again (and I hope that happen soon) then these people can easily go back to cryptocurrency almost in an instant.

I do not appreciate the choice of investors who invest in gold. Gold is one of the precious metals, but it cannot be as volatile as Bitcoin. Investors are looking for profits so choose risky options because this is more profitable than investing in gold.

Wait for a moment. We don't know if they are really moving to gold because that is news which we cannot know if it's true or not. Maybe that news wants to make people in cryptocurrency fear for seeing the market cannot recover so far. But I don't think that cryptocurrency will end this day because it's still beginning the era of the digital technologies and I am sure that if people were moving to gold, then they will regret it in someday because, in that time, cryptocurrency will be on the high price.

This is a fud, those investors already have investment in gold not that they're just moving from bitcoin to gold. Even at that more and more sectors are now accepting cryptocurrency mostly bitcoin and i don't think this should  be a reason to worry about.

LOL  ;D Comparing bitcoin to gold is like the worst thing to do. I can't think of migrating from bitcoin to gold as there is a huge difference in both.
The volatility is a huge difference in both. It would be hard for people to gain big profits in a short time if they invest in Gold.
Besides that they will also have to carefully keep the Gold in a safe place and safeguard it from thieves. It sure is a burden.

Why do you think Crypto investors also invest in gold?
Cryptocurrency created because it wanted to replace FIAT so why are they still trying to spend on FIAT, they fear that Crypto will fail in this battle or they think Crypto cannot replace FIAT?

It could be but I don't think there are many of them shifting their loyalty from bitcoin to gold. This is clearly a fud. It is more reliable if the article says that the investors of gold also investing bitcoin. Aside from this I don't think their is another way of statement to beautify the statement.

That's where you are going wrong.

It's an investment, loyalty doesn't come into it.

I won't believe this entirely and neither should you and what we should understand is nothing on the internet specially news regarding bitcoin and cryptocurrencies should believe at once because governments, Media, Other central organizations and Individuals who are among us spread nonsense regarding bitcoin and crypto without any solid proof so at the end many loose there money and time due taking wrong decisions in a hurry  by panicking

We should not be astounded by this news, we have seen bitcoin reach $20,000 and fall to $3000 and it would be natural for people to think that bitcoin will never reach $20,000 again. Then people will look for other investments that are safer and more profitable. We can not force people to keep their bitcoins


this may be true, look at the current price and the price of 2017, it's clear that people are coming out of bitcoin and cryptos in general

Lol, can you please stop spreading those absurd news? What are you gaining by doing this. At least read and try to understand whats written on the article is legitimate or some sort of FUD to keep new investors away and send fill the current investors mind with confusion. Trust me, just stick with bitcoin and you won't be regretting.

I don't think people did remove gold from their vocabulary totally because of bitcoin by the way. I believe that though many crypto holders have full trust in bitcoin and have not really given attention on gold, it doesnt mean gold became lesser in value. gold is tested and proven even from the beginning of times and still until now valuable, so if bitcoin investors have shifted to gold now that bitcoin price is down, their decisions are justified. they can't be blamed.

I don't think investors are switching to gold. After all, any thinking person understands that bitcoin is also a very profitable investment and now it would be foolish to sell it in order to invest in gold. It's better to keep both.

Agreee I think just because of bitcoin, someone won't get rid of sight or get away from gold. of course we know the capacity and potential of gold, Im sure that not all users leave gold for bitcoin right ? some even combine it? and that doesn't matter, even get more profit

i stand on what i said and you may not know it but you just agreed with me. i suggest you read the bold part of your own comment and then go on the bullshit website of OP and read the first line there. here let me help you with that:
"Bitcoin investors are now moving to gold". and it is published on January 2019 not when we were near ATH.

in short OP is trying to convince us that NOW that the drop has practically ended and it is near the bottom or in other words 85% below the ATH, the bitcoin investors are selling their bitcoins to go into gold!

A lot of people believe in Bitcoin but saying that people moved to gold? Nah.

If someone is capable of investing big money, they've already invested on Gold surely for a long time now. They might invest on Bitcoin but I don't think they will prioritize Bitcoin since Gold is one of the best investments for a long time now. You are saying that a lot of people are taking risks but the price of Bitcoin is continuing to drop meaning a lot of them are selling their Bitcoins now.

I don't care if what they wanna do with their money ,whats important is out money that will remain here in crypto investments,let us not look for something that might discourage others to continuously support bitcoin and all altcoins instead let others see things in good prospective that theres a bright option from this bear and that is to purchase more crypto while the value is more cheaper.never let the dip bring us down because we all know that in sooner market will recover

When I think more about this, I guess that if people/investors were moving to gold is because they want to have another type of investment, so they choose gold for the next investment. And what I think is how we can spread that money into many types of investment because our purpose is to make more and more money in the future. And by having more than two types of investment, gold and cryptocurrency, we can have the opportunity to make a bigger profit.

you are mostly wrong.
having more than one investment is not going to give you more profit, and also having more than one investment (aka diversification) is not about making more profit, it is instead about reducing the risk of your investment while still making profit.
so when you buy something else like gold it is because you want to have a stake in another market that is not going to drop with bitcoin, or vice versa, you buy bitcoin because you want to have something that doesn't drop with gold. so that if one of them dropped you are not in total loss.

besides OP is not even talking about diversification! he is talking about people giving up bitcoin and buying gold instead. and he is saying they are dong it now that it is not time to sell but the time to buy :D

You're correct there bro! There is a difference between people who invest in digital assets and investors of physical assets and I guess some people do not understand it. Bitcoin or Crypto Currency investors are what they are and Gold investors are what they are, this two kinds of investors have a different kind of points of vies and philosophy and they will surely don't match at each other. Crypto investors are high-risk takers while Gold investors are low-risk takers.

Yeah that's a very reasonable thing, everyone can see the profit he will make and the losses he will find. Also, I am not hypocritical when investing in gold is the safest way to invest, the risks that will be faced are very small, you will only benefit from losses. However, to say I exchanged bitcoin investment with gold then I disagree, I still hold bitcoin to date. I have got a loss, but that does not mean I am leaving my investment.

This is the reality now in which investors will really leave the crypto space in dismay and will be force to shift to none crypto investments as more than a year of enduring the bearish market is really a difficult thing to do but i believe that once crypto currency will back to its great form then those who leave will going back as most of them are just waiting for the bullish run to start.

Anyone can write an article and it finds its way into the internet so let's not promote FUD by bringing such false article into the forum.
And try next time to put a disclaimer to your title when you are dropping a sourced article

Gold price increasing from $1200 last month and right now the price above $1300. Gold always first option if people afraid on economic conditon.  But i think bitcoin can be a store of value like gold if bitcoin adoption happen. Thats news could be true

There is no way that Bitcoin investors are going to switch over to gold

I can tell you that even without reading the piece you linked to. I can even go so far as to claim that it is a complete junk. Why am I so sure? The reason is surprisingly simple. Because Bitcoin and gold are assets which are on the opposite ends of the investment landscape (with many other asset classes in between). People invest in gold if they want to save the wealth they have already accumulated, while people who invest in Bitcoin are speculators and looking to multiply that wealth or create it in the first place. So it is two entirely different groups of people with completely different goals in mind, and there is not a single chance for the massive switch-over between them. It simply doesn't happen in real life

So what about people like myself that speculated in bitcoin, made a decent profit then cashed out the lot into gold to stabilise the gains made?

You won't believe me but I expected exactly you to come up with this "rebuttal"

Though not so fast, of course. Actually, you are a gold bug (which you seem to admit yourself), so it is no surprise that you would convert your Bitcoin gains into gold as you have likely been doing before (thus nothing has changed). And I would do the same if I were you. But obviously, I'm not you, and neither are the majority of the Bitcoin crowd here. So you fall into the category of those who have already accumulated enough wealth to make it reasonable and practical to walk this route and probably have already been doing that all the time

But this is not the case with the rest of the pack, most of which are hapless and hopeless bagholders anyway. They don't even think of gold as a viable option as they have no wealth or gains to save. So their only choice is to keep holding and hope for the best. Gold is not for them

I don't think so, we have seen lot of news like that but reality is different. We can say just big investors are waiting to invest on Bitcoin. Due ETF and some others issue big investors are on confuse about market volatility. But I believe some of big investors are buying bitcoin but they are not exposing in my opinions. Just they are silent and may be any time can run bull like 2017. As a bitcoin holder personally I don't believe much bitcoin investors are moving on gold investments. Bitcoin and gold investments are not same. I think we can't see this price again within next years. So whoever will move on gold from bitcoin I don't think they will on much profits.

Honestly, how can any journalist reasonably and reliably measure where investors are moving their funds, especially with Bitcoin. It's sort of difficult to detect with BItcoin. I'd like to see some actual numbers here instead of just CEOs speculation.

The article is only there to gather buzz/clicks. It's not reputable/worthy info.

I don't mind if you say that I am wrong. I mean that when people like me (who only know gold is precious) are moving into gold, that is not because I want to have another investment and I know that it's not about making more profit, but if I know how to make more money than you, then I can choose to go using that way  :P
But still, reducing the risk of the investment to make more profit, in the end, is the main goals for the making of much investment and that is what we want from the investment.
When I buy something else like gold, it is because I want to have the physical form of the investment which a gold have that form, and I can save it in my deposit box. I only know that gold is one of the best investment ever.
Where is the OP saying about people giving up bitcoin and buying gold instead? OP itself is not clarified about that, and he only gives a link from another source which after I read, that is pros and cons in that sites. One person saying the negative things about bitcoin and choose gold, the other person telling the positive about Bitcoin. I don't think that people will easily buy gold especially when the price is up because I think they need to wait for a while until the gold price can decrease ;D

There’s no doubt that we’re in the longest bear phase bitcoins has seen since it’s adoption, but the statement people are moving to gold from bitcoins is one big lie. I feel people are being misled into buying gold at current levels where I feel prices are very high, and soon this bubble will burst and gold prices shall crash. I urge people to not repeat the mistake of December 2017, of buying a currency/commodity at it’s peak just cause you’re made to believe others are buying it too.

I think this is just to create that kind of market sentiment for people to psychologically go now and start buying up the gold that these whales have already invested in so that they can go and dump it again down the road. It's called soft marketing. Of course, having some gold in your portfolio doesn't hurt, especially if you have funds to diversify in, but we know this kind of marketing is to make people buy in a certain way and it's created to move markets. Remember all those so called experts that said by the end of 2018 Bitcoin will be between 30 - 60 USD? Where are those experts now? These people are paid to say things so that people act in a certain way to buy their products and services, that's it.

there is nothing wrong about that but that only puts you in the minority. there are many different groups of people, most of them are accumulating bitcoin. they may cash out at the top when the price is near the ATH for the maximum profit and then put it somewhere else, although rarely in gold, but they all eventually come back to bitcoin again as the drops end. meaning these days that price is near the bottom.

This news must be funded by gold investors. It's not just gold that is out there and there is much worthy investments that is doing good. People are just selling you the news so you'll buy more and make the price spike faster and then when they sell, you'll all cry asking yourself why'd you do it.

So it was a pile of junk after all and I was right about not reading it


That's my point exactly

People convert their wealth into gold when they have already accumulated enough of that wealth to care more about preserving it and not so much about multiplying it (as a whole). Though it doesn't necessarily mean that they move all their wealth into gold or some other hard asset. Gold works as a reserve asset if things go massively awry with everything else (in the world), so it is a rational choice and wise investment

Of course, they will not do that because Bitcoin or Crypto investors are high-risk takers and they all love taking high-risk investment methods because there is something in the high-risk investments that fulfills their desires that can't be fulfilled by investing in a physical asset like gold with a low volatility level compared to Crypto Currencies. Investing in Crypto Currencies is really risky because decentralized assets are really volatile and anything can happen anytime. I guess the excitement of this kind of industry is one of the major reasons why there are a lot of people investing in Crypto Currencies especially those speculators.

Just let them do, anyways they are free of what they want for their life. It could be their regrets for not being a part of crypto journey,  they are worried for the collapse scenarios happen but they are wrong. But I believe they turn back into crypto when our market turn into good even not showing bull runs.

What you’re saying are those investors that new here in crypto,that for me called as Fly by Night investors who was just aiming for big profit and when they see market do not favor them surely will withdraw and wil find another ventures,but the older investors that know how the market moves?they will never do the sam thing as this

I saw this article but it sounded really like fake news a bit..

like all investor are moving and no spike in gold? I follow tge ventures capital and still see lots of money coming in

the space is still early and there's a lot to build needed

So obvious, we don't trust having others randomly should better do what needs to be done ourselves. looks like they have in dilemmas about Bitcoin. I consider Bitcoin as sleeping giant. I'm waiting to buy back some with my tether, If I had more money ill be buying more.

For me,investors do not totally move to gold and leave bitcoin behind.They know already how volatile bitcoin is so they already expected how the market moves up and down.But i don't think having a gold investment together with bitcoin could be a wrong move.In fact,it could make an investor a more profitable one.

Yes truly correct mate who's behind on that news they want To destroy again the virtual currency or bitcoin, There nothing concrete evidence investors totally moving in to gold.
Not possible investors in virtual currency not totally leaving bitcoin for some reason maybe they buying gold for their collection or whatever purposes. I suggest those people do nit be paranoid just stay calm be patience.

It really depends on which country we come from, if in developed countries I think gold infestation still feels complicated, compared to bitcoin, but things are different from countries that don't support and don't provide bitcoin, then investing in gold is still an option many people. so everything still depends on the country where we live.

I don't believed this kind of news, I mean can casual bitcoin investors can simply buy golds as  investment? I doubt. A lot who stop buying bitcoin is just waiting outside and not moving to other assets. They have their funds and willing to go back once the market show some sign of recovery.

Maybe the article wanted to sway more crypto investors to gold, but I think it won't happened.

There is no reason for a Bitcoin or Crypto Currency investor to move to gold and it is pretty nonsense at all, Most of the Bitcoin investors are not just an investor that buys Bitcoin and make it sit for a long period of time because most of them are traders and takes advantage on the market trends that currently happening to multiply their hodlings into more huge amounts. And why would they move to gold if there is a stable coin called USDT? ???

some people will use this opportunity to make it rich. others choose to leave and invest safely. I agree with the quote.

in my opinion they just want to get rich quick. while you can see the growth of bitcoin since 9 years ago. it's about how you use your money to invest. 8) 8)

I don't think so.  :(
I think investors are investing in both. They invest in gold and also invest in Bitcoin. They never leave Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is a very profitable investment. And I know Bitcoin investors will not leave Bitcoin and even Bitcoin investors will still invest in Bitcoin.
Yeah, I say this because I'm also a Bitcoin Investor.  ;)

It looks like a typically FUD move from them, since there are no other negative news to tell they just collaborated the recent price movement in gold and tag along bitcoin :P. I am not sure how they come up with the conclusion that bitcoin investors are moving to gold and so is the reason the price of gold started moving. ::)

Looking at the always falling price of Bitcoin, it is only natural that some investors turn to other investments that they consider far from the risk of loss and are able to give them profits. I think indeed gold is currently one of the best choices for investing, even though maybe we only get a small profit but at least will avoid the risk of loss.

You're totally wrong here. Bitcoins will be very profitable in the future. Also this perception is wrong that people are not investing in bitcoin. Actually whales are gathering bitcoin at this low rate as they know that it will be at very high rates by the end of 2020. Also those who are investing is bitcoin are not moving to Gold as the profit ratio is very minimal in Gold as compared to bitcoins.

Gold is not good for profit making (though it is for profit protecting)

As it has been underperforming for the last 40 years. That basically means that its growth in US dollars was lower than the dollar inflation accumulated during that timeframe. In other words, you would likely have lost in inflation-adjusted dollar value of your gold if you had invested somewhere in 1980. If you want to earn profits with the smallest amount of risk, you may want to look into bonds (something like inflation-protected treasuries)

I don't think bitcoin investors are moving to gold or selling their bitcoin to buy gold, for me, they are also buying gold at the same time, bitcoin and gold can be invested at the same time. Gold was already created before bitcoin, so gold is a really good buy even until today because of its good value and I don't think there is a competition between the two.

It could be true but I think it will not affect the believers or the bitcoin in general because we all know bitcoin is still best for doing things gold just can't do. Bitcoin is a payment system aside from just being an investment so that it differs a lot from gold. I don't mean to say gold is not good but they are different. That is why both can stay together side by side now and in the future to come.

That online news article are disseminating false information so we should not believe to it. We are knowledgeable enough that we can earn many opportunities by investing in bitcoin than gold. Why we will invest something that we cannot have returns. The price of gold is so stable so if we make investment, we can just get very low interest.

Yeah. I think your opinion is right mate. What I see here is that maybe the situation are reversed investors sold their gold to invest more in Bitcoin. For me Bitcoin is a much better investment compared to gold though Bitcoin has high risk but it can also give us high return which a stable gold is lacking. Gold is hard to hide and hoard as it is not that safe to keep some unlike Bitcoin which we only need private keys.

Investors are capital owners who are always chasing profits, no matter gold, silver, crypto, stocks, or other financial instruments.
Therefore when the price of bitcoin falls, they shift their investment to gold, but not all of them. Because they realize the price of bitcoin will soar again. So they are not fanatical about a product. But chasing big profits.

Some Investors may have move to gold investments because they might think it is more effective than bitcoin investment but soon bitcoin prices will rise due to the current trend because like always when there is a drop an increase in value will follow and when that time comes most of them will get disappointed about there decision but surely those who have patience will make good gains out of this situation because when more investors are selling the possibility to buy bitcoin for a low price is much higher which can increase the income easily

That's not necessarily so

In fact, it is almost certainly not so with respect to physical gold as some investors (rather, all investors after earning a certain amount of dough) may be looking to park their wealth to avoid its depreciation. In this specific case they won't be looking for profits as their primary goal will be preserving their wealth and not multiplying it (these are different things), and gold fits into this category perfectly

I think this news is not correct. because until now there are still many people who choose bitcoin, even though the condition of bitcoin is worsening, but people are able to understand it. because every trip of a business is not always going to be smooth.

Investors are now moving to more stable commodities because they believe that this commodity will not liquidate easily like the cryptocurrency, but what is important about the liquidity of cryptocurrency is the ability to move in different direction some time upwards or downward.

yes, of course the bitcoin investors still survive today. they haven't just gone away by replacing bitcoin with gold. only a few people do this. because they are afraid of the situation of bitcoin which is getting down

[quote author=joniboini link=topic=5103932.msg49492410#msg49492410 I still think people who want to risk a lot will choose crypto instead of gold or any other asset. It's a high-risk high return investment, after all.
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Indeed it is high risk high return on investment and if why many people around the world choose crypto currency investment in recent time particularly as we are experiencing a downward trend people are buy crypto currency at a cheaper rate waiting an increase in time to come which we all believe it will happen in no distance time.

ETF will be a good for bitcoin and make bitcoin more popular among big investor. If ETF approved by SEC, big investor must be interesting to invest in bitcoin and cryptocurrency market. But for traditional people, Gold still their first option because its looks real investment

I hope so, and when ETF approved, I hope that it might help the price to get the new higher price. People who smart will choose both bitcoin and gold, and they will use bitcoin as the online investment and gold as the offline investment. I am sure that they can be ready for the worst things that might happen and they want to make a profit from both bitcoin and gold at the same time.

I think it's very difficult to make sense if Bitcoin investors turn to gold, because Bitcoin investors certainly understand that profits through bitcoin are far greater than gold. They also understand that the risk of investing in Bitcoin is indeed much greater, so seeing the development of Bitcoin prices that have always dropped in the past year does not mean that bitcoin investors are diverting gold investments, I see them enjoying a decline in Bitcoin prices, because they understand this investment and know Bitcoin prices will definitely rise again and can generate huge profits for them.

I heard about ETF have been accepted last night and become good news for bitcoin and altcoin have grow up tonight, but many investor will back make investment at bitcoin and altcoin, I will back for investing at bitcoin and never moving to the gold investment.

Yeah what's wrong with using both of them? I'm not sure Bitcoin users are turning to gold, because gold has been around since
Bitcoin didn't exist? I think the option is gold users switch to bitcoin, or gold users add bitcoin to other option of investment

If that investors were a failure in cryptocurrency, then they are thinking of investing on something that has a less issues like gold. I don't think they'd give up cryptocurrency easily. Especially when they've experience such fruit of profits.

Few investors might move to alternative investing assets like Gold and share markets until bitcoin starts its bull run and that is the time majority of them will understand there stupidity because if we look at the bitcoin past all the time when there is a dip a bull run usually follows and even bitcoin didn't starts to recover its price than earlier times soon it will continue to increase the value and holders will get there price for there patience

I think there should be studies and research for that, it can't only be sourced from the news articles that you provide. however Bitcoin still has a higher price than gold or fiat currencies.
but I admit that the current situation is that there are many investors and traders who prefer to be quiet than speculating that is very risky

I don't think that bitcoins investors are moving to Gold these days. If that was the case, we could have seen big spike in the value of Gold but this does not happen. Those people who are investor of bitcoins are the ones who need quick profits and are willing to take more risk. Gold Investment will never provide them quick gain , even though the investment in Gold is much safer than bitcoins.

I don't think either

But Bitcoin is too small to make a scratch in the gold market and affect the gold price in any meaningful degree. Many people are gauging the cryptocurrency market by its market cap. But it is a wrong metric to use in this case (and in almost any other case). In order to make a meaningful assessment we have to take into account the liquidity of the market, i.e. how many bitcoins can be sold without crashing the price. That will be the amount of fiat which can be invested in gold, and it will be negligible given the size of the gold market

the mindset of most investors is how to see their assets grow and not too often decrease in value, but they will again release their gold when at least the crypto market has been dominated by coins at stable prices, even though this is not bitcoin, because investors remain reactive to developments now and the possibility to continue to see profit opportunities.

Indeed, people who investing on bitcoin and gold is different. Most gold investor are old people with traditional mindset and bitcoin investor mostly are millenials or people who understand about technology. Gold always first choice for most people because gold known for centuries but i think in the future bitcoin can be good alternative investment

No doubt that the Bitcoin investors are now switching or moving to the gold it maybe because of the crypto market that is kicking so hard. The crypto currency community is facing a great challenge in the history which brings a lots of assets into despair. Well, the community crypto market is not yet recovering but still keeps on running.

It's no news that the volatility nature of Cryptocurrency is  limiting the growth of the Cryptocurrency market .
But I am of the opinion that those who are moving into gold investment instead if Cryptocurrency do not understand the potentials of Cryptocurrency in the long run.
If they do, they wouldn't have left Cryptocurrency for gold.

Calling it imaginary gold is taking it a bit too far. When buying gold securities you are ALWAYS able to exchange it to actual gold. The thing is that nobody actually want to store the gold, as it is highly impractical.

No uncertainties in gold really. At least not in the same range as Bitcoin.

Dont you trust the potential of Gold in the long run as well? They have left cryptocurrency for some reason that Gold is far more a superior investment than cryptocurrency. Maybe some do not understand, but majority does. Cryptocurrency is a very risky investment, but it could give you multiple folds of profit if asset is handled properly with good decisions makings, whereas Gold is a much safer investment.

actually this is a common thing, even since long ago, people have always invested in gold. well, I have some information about people who always invest in gold in my country. however, some people also invest in other places such as the cryptocurerncy, but now they may wait for the market to recover.

people have their freedom to choose, if they are hopeless due to their lack of patience, they can move to anything, what is the big about it?

Ofcourse not,those investors are only here just to gain big profit and don’t even bother to take a look about what is blockchain and all the technology behind cryptocurrency

Meaning this people are not deserving to he consider as BITCOIN INVESTORS instead they are just a a pretender,the true investors are those who believe about what can benefits for long run and notjust by today and tomorrow

I think its not, maybe some bitcoin investors just want another form of investment aside cryptocurrency and gold I guess the best option to make to diversify their investment. It's just foolish thing when a ln bitcoin investors withdraw its btc funds and tranfers into to gold, while this time is the very good to buy bitcoin since its till in a low price. Then, hold it and wait for the moment to have a bullrun again.

Right, seeing the bitcoin market capitalization that is still above 52%, of course that already shows if bitcoin has never been abandoned by its investors, maybe there are some who try to switch, but I think the number is certainly not significant

That in fact remains to be seen

As it seems there is a difference between being (allegedly) able to redeem paper gold and actually redeeming it for physical metal. Basically, we don't know whether these gold securities are backed by real gold, end of story. As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in eating. The same is equally true with paper gold, i.e. unless every holder of these securities tries to exchange them for the shiny bullion, we can't actually say if you are always able to redeem them fully. Real gold run will likely cause a domino effect of defaults

those who switched to decide to invest in gold actually only avoided losses that continued because almost a year ago 2018 the movement of bitcoin prices tended to decline more frequently. but for some people who believe that bitcoin has the potential for the future, instead they take advantage of situations like this by adding investment assets they have and deciding to hold them for a long time.

I still dont understand how a few investors "diversifying" into other sectors make any difference for bitcoin at all. You may argue that the money is going out but you must understand that movements are going to happen and people are going to buy and sell their assets. Its not a stagnant market it has to be dynamic. So today if someone is buying gold they may be buying with their fiat money as well.

These whole FUD topics are just made to manipulate people. Its a speculative market - here rise and fall are imminent. You have to decide what you will do not what others are doing.

Guys.. this is just FUD. Of course that this article is intended to create panic between bitcoin holders. The greedy institutional investors still haven't filled their bags. They want lower prices. If I want stability I invest in real estate, not gold. I don't want my money staying around, I want it to be working day and night! ;)

That seems highly unlikely. Primarily because the price of gold doesn't fluctuate like the price of Bitcoin does, so the chance of a big profit is no longer a possibility for them.

Gold is Old.
Gold is Old ponzi, BTC is new ponzi.

no btc investors Don't move to Gold!!

Gold is nowdays just nice peace of metal and thats it for Investment its Bad!!

Not one Person who got Brain Will invest Now in gold i Will laugh at them if they move from btc to gold

People lose coz they got no clue about Financial world : D

They Think they are smart and they do smart decisions but in Reality they Don't make then Decisisions with their own mind.


Gold Will collapse soon!!

I am not so sure that Bitcoin investors moved to Gold. Even though it is, that's only part of it, and I'm still sure there are still many people here who hold Bitcoin. Investing in Bitcoin is different from other investments, even though Bitcoin is currently down, but the expectation of fast prices is very high. For this reason, Bitcoin investors will not easily move to Gold.

I agree with you, as a bitcoiner they know the potential of it and they know the future of cryptocurrency, This bitcoin users are new members who joined in late 2017, or early in 2018 when the bitcoin price was declining without knowing full knowledge about bitcoin and made loss in greedy, so now they are moving to gold.

Yes.Those investors who are moving to gold are the newcomers who don't have a long stretch of patience to wait for a good rise so they chose to move into gold.But the early adopters here are still firm to focus on cruptocurrency knowing it would give them the highest profit more than what gold can give.

Yeah that's true because of dropping price people find way to make another good profit in a some investment. And also some of projects now and some some projects before are communicated to gold. Maybe that is another way of them to survive their investment.

I am agree. Investor who move to gold must be not patient during this bear market and they want to move their investment to Gold because its safe haven asset. Bitcoin is more profitable compare gold if we looking on history price and if we able to be patient to hold

it has fallen dramatically and in the past 8 months there has not been an increase of even 20%. the electability of bitcoin fell heavily in this period. no wonder many investors leave.

Not as seen. Investors still believe in crypto. Maybe partly or this is just fud. Some ico is evidence that investors still believe in crypto and they are success about it. The issue of cryptocurrency with liquidity and store of value is an issue to bring down crypto world. Almost all types of trade have problems with it not only cryptocurrency

Truth. Even when people separate investors into two categories: Holders and Regular investors.

I don't think that it should be seen like that, since both are doing the same thing at the end, with different strategies yes but really alike. One is moved for ideals mostly the another one moved for profits mostly but both are putting or putted their money inside acquiring some currency/assets.

However the ones who move part of their money to gold to be more stable it's up to them. Everybody have different investment strategies like i mentioned before that doesn't really affect us.

I strongly believe that they are waiting patiently until Bitcoin start rising at a decent rate again to move quick.

even though like that, I think in the near future there will be very many people interested in bitcoin again. well, i started to think that the price increase that happened would make investors look at bitcoin. well, even I believe, not all investors return to gold, but they also invest in ICO which has great potential.

The first advantage of gold is that the banker factor in the gold market is so weak that it hardly needs to be considered.

The second advantage of gold speculation is that gold financing is a sharp hedge against inflation.

The third advantage of speculating in gold is that gold can be used as the most advantageous means for people to protect themselves in the event of a credit currency crisis.

The fourth advantage of fried gold is that it is easy to preserve for a long time. Storage is a very difficult problem for general commodities, because physical and chemical forces of nature can make general commodities change qualitatively and destroy their value.

The fifth advantage of gold speculation is that gold speculators can speculate around the clock, with many opportunities. The gold market is an open global market, and even the regulated regional market is inextricably linked with the international market. A gold speculator can participate not only in the investment of physical gold, but also in the investment of account gold.

The sixth advantage of gold speculation is that the tax burden of gold investment is extremely light, which can be considered as the lightest investment project in many countries.

The seventh advantage of speculating in gold is that the transfer of property rights is extremely convenient and inheritance tax can be avoided.

The eighth advantage of speculating in gold is that it can use the gold purchased as collateral. It is no exaggeration to say that gold is one of the best mortgages.

Market price now down. But people neaver avoid the bitcoin. It part of the life. so people believe the bitcoin. Most of the people waiting for the price increase. People check the market price every day. If price is go down. Hold the coin and wait for the price high. Then people will be exchange.

i guess it's just fud nothing more.since Bitcoin giving thousands % of profit to investors but Gold having store of value though,but return to it's investors far less then Bitcoin.Myself i enjoyed Bitcoin profits and also some losses but can't leave crypto because the profit ratio is more then losses.No one beat or compete Bitcoin.

I don't think that there's any competition between gold and cryptocurrency so there's no panic if people are investing their money on gold instead of cryptocurrency.

Sound pretty much like FUD why would you move to BTC Gold ?  ???

Bitcoin isn't a ponzi and these news leads people to wrong information. Bitcoin investors aren't moving now to gold instead gold investors are the ones who are moving to bitcoin.

Gold is old and this makes people trust it even more than a new technology that will make their lives easier. But for me, as a bitcoin investor I'll choose bitcoin being a store of value than gold.

I'm one of the bitcoin investors but I never planned to switch my investments into gold investments. It is true that there is less risks in gold investment but we cannot get high returns from it due to its stable price.

I have so many doubt behind this news.It could be a great FUD .I have a great experienced about Forex,Gold and commodities. I just wanna say crypto is the best and if it is bitcoin no one want to move from here. He who don't have much idea about crypto they just ignore the crypto market and the bitcoin investor always put her invest on bitcoin and other crypto.

I have done FOREX investments and that seems like a gambling game than an investment and I think majority would agree with that with me so if investing in real and major currencies like USD, GBP , JPY are unpredictable how moving to gold from Bitcoin can be a smart decision because according to my experience gold is much volatile than fiat currencies so what I can say for those who is going to move forever from Bitcoin to gold please think twice because the return on investment is very uncertain   

Volatility of physical gold is nonexistant. That's for storage of value, and that only. Heading on a timespan of a decade.

What about storage costs? Bars inside a fault labelled "good delivery" will cost you on a daily base.

Because of the Bitcoin crypto marlet that is totally in its dip, no doubt that Bitcoin investors are moving into gold. For this kind of time here in the crypto community, it is reasonable for them to have change their pace and also how they will strive for their own sake. But for me that is true and still happy using crypto currencies, I will keep on using it and remain here in the crypto world.

The rumor that says Bitcoin investors are moving to gold is negligible but I agree that a certain percentage of investors turned over from Bitcoin because during the previous price decrease the dip was much higher and losses were much bigger than any other time in the crypto market history so many traders lost there hard earned money instantly so with that kind of situation without understanding this as a temporary situation some turned over from investing in Bitcoin which is common for any market

In recent days the price of gold has increased tremendously, but along with the same over the past few years the price of bitcoin has begun to grow reaching around $4000. People moving to gold is common and it happens quite often whenever demand for the gold increases.

In my opinion, bitcoin and gold is not same. They are totally different. The uses and benefits are also different on them. Bitcoin is an online based asset as well as cryptocurrency and gold is a asset in real shape. In this time, bitcoin has also much popularity to attract more people.

I've never think if they'll continue to move away from crypto since we know that our market prices are now waking up. It is quite good to see how it moves and it continuously moving up since last week. 
Investors might turn their head and put their money back.
Anyways, we cant take their hands if they'll leave crypto but they are so welcome to came back into crypto space again.

This explains somehow the current bear market. No new investors are putting in money in this space. The people who also invest in ICOs are also old-timers who just plays around with their funds.

actually this is still uncertain, because investors can return at any time, and I think that not all investors divert all the funds they have in gold. well, the fast development of bitcoin, and other cryptocurrency will definitely make investors return. well, I think they will be interested in bitcoin if there is a very interesting development. it will make the bull market back.

it is likely that interference can occur. because the price of bitcoin and other coins. which always goes down from the beginning of 2018 until now and there are no signs to go up again. make some investors choose Gold as their investment place.

Every investor will always try to find a space where they can make a profit, maybe now they see crypto very slow in price movements, so some investors are interested in investing in gold, which they think is currently more profitable for them. For me this is something natural that happens, and when crypto looks up and is able to generate profits, of course investors will return to invest in crypto currencies.

We know that the situation of the market is not in the current conditions.But then still a big investor not moves to the gold.Actually, gold and bitcoin are two different  things that matter.Bitcoin is a high-end invested coins And everyone wants to invest in bitcoin.

Not plausible.
Crypto is in no way comparable in it's use to gold.

You ever try and exchange a gold bar for something?

investment depends on where we live. if we are in developed and urban countries, the investment in the form of bitcoin is still right, and maybe the investment in the form of property is still very suitable. but things are different if we are in a developing country and we are in the countryside, the most appropriate investment is land, rice fields or in the form of gold. so the best investment is determined in the country where we live and where we are. because all answers will be different.

Just few time for investing moving their asset from bitcoin investment to the gold investment, when bitcoin raised to higher price they will move again asset from gold become bitcoin investment for holding at the future.

Gold. stock. property. cryptocurrency is an existing instrument to invest. it should be important for us to have it. This portion of the distribution is good for us to be able to benefit from every investment instrument currently available

rumors of bitcoin that have issues will die causing many prospective investors to now turn to gold and prove to be safer. because right now bitcoin is in an unstable position.

With high-risk and high return bitcoin remains the top choice in investing. The bitcoin investors don’t move to the gold or don’t only invest the gold. Golding investment has proved the wrong investment due to low-return compared to stock ,digital currency, even fiat currency. Now blockchain is a promosing industry, and the price of bitcoin will reach or past its historical highs in a few years

That comparison shouldn't be taken too literally

The point is not in exchanging physical gold for something, though it may well be the case of big purchases involving millions of dollars (especially in some shady affairs). When people compare crypto, or more specifically, Bitcoin to gold (as is the majority of cases), they compare such aspects as scarcity which allows to consider Bitcoin as a store of value or "digital gold". And it is this use which people have in mind when they are making such comparisons

You have to know that the rumor is true, but not all investors return to gold, there are still many who still survive in cryptocurrency because they see a good opportunity in cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency price movements are more than in gold which only has a little movement price.

If they do, their actions are justified. The current situation of bitcoin is not quite desirable and if someone wants a tangible and more tested investment, they have the option to invest in gold too but to totally set aside bitcoin and shift to gold, that will probably be a big mistake one can do. Just like those who sneer and snob bitcoin when it was just few cents dollar in value and now regretting for not giving it a chance.

Lets be practical about it. The feasibility of getting a certain investment like bitcoin to gold and then holding gold till bitcoin drops again to buy back or the reverse order is going to be a tough call because of legal problems with Bitcoin and less liquid volumes for you to trade with. The concept came for the stock markets hedging one set of assets to another group of assets but extrapolating that to crypto is not possible in this current scenario with low adoption.

You should go through the world economics distribution and will soon realize that the amount of money in the would into crypto is far far less than stocks, precious metals and commodities. ;)

so does bitcoin will crumble? so investors are switching to invest into gold

It doesn't hurt to keep some of your investments in gold.  In case of a major attack on the electric system the only currency that will have value will be precious metals.

One day, Gold will be a safe investment tool. Everything seems to go back to ancient times where gold will be very valuable. We never know how long the existence of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency existed. There is nothing wrong if you want to invest gold from now on.

Gold is believed to be the safe haven by the common people. This lets people go towards gold when there market is bearish. Soon they'll get back to the cryptocurrency network when the bitcoin market turns bullish. Gold has taken such a place after years and years of survival as a physical metal with long history adding value to it.

I'm not sure either if the whole idea makes any sense

I mean from an investment point of view as it doesn't look to me a worthy idea at all. However, technically speaking, you don't have to convert your bitcoins to gold directly and vice versa. You may just sell bitcoins and buy gold but you don't necessarily have to buy the latter with the proceeds from the former (if that was your point, of course)

In other words, you would essentially go with two independent investments but you can line them up in such a way that would effectively count as moving from Bitcoin to gold and from gold to Bitcoin

I myself do not understand whether this is nonsense or indeed true. but in my opinion, not all investors will move to gold for reasons of liquidity and value storage, there may be some people who think that way, but in my opinion only a minority. very reasonable if they have the thought of moving to gold with the current situation. maybe some people think that gold has no risk compared to cryptocurrency at this time. maybe all of that is fairness.

although many invest in gold. but not everyone chooses gold for investment, and of course there are many who still hold on to bitcoin and invest in bitcoin. the problem is that bitcoin has started to increase again.

I don't buy into the idea of Bitcoin investors moving to invest in gold. Perhaps, the investor was first interested in both gold and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has got its investors and most of us are now holding our coins because the market has gone bearish for long time. For the past few days, the market seems to be regaining its health by showing all green with BTC rising from $3600 to $4100. Although it cannot yet be confirmed a bull market, it is an incredible increase within this short period of time.

Gold came out before the invention of bitcoin and crypto , thats why people are first interested to gold before bitcoin but after bitcoin came out , people then got interested to it because it solves alot of problem regarding on the financial issues but most advantage that we got is that it can give you a compound interes just like gold . people then treat bitcoin as an investment asset simmilar to gold .

Not yet, many investor come back to bitcoin because bitcoin have raised up today and have higher price, always best time how to make investment with bitcoin and altcoin at the future because bitcoin could raised to higher price.

people think that they are smart if they invest in Gold.
People think that they are smart if they invest in Bitcoin.

what makes gold better then its bitcoin?
answer is:  they are both same they have value coz
thats been said btc and Gold have value.


You think that Gold is safe and good Investment.. coz its like popular to think like that.

but Gold is expensive all Ready... if  i Buy Today who im gona sell it with higher Price?  
people who Got money they are the ones who Will be selling gold themselfes.

Bitcoin is Not so expensive yet plus btc have more Useful sides then Gold.  
i Can pay with btc without borders and thats like a digital gold its Easy to store too.  

gold just as nice precious metal im fine with that but for Investment its bad.

if the Gold Will fall about 70% then i Will be Thinking about Buying Gold.

but not before that!!

Articles, news, or electronic media, can be positive or negative news, in essence, there are many opinions about this, issued by investors. at the end of the article, so back to the calculation or profit that investors get if they invest in gold, or Bitcoin with the same amount of money invested.

News: https://www.google.co.id/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/26/bitcoin-investors-are-running-from-crypto-to-invest-in-this-commodity.html

News: https://bitcoinist.com/van-eck-bitcoin-investors-also-investing-in-gold/

So for now there is no certainty and fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin, for it to be the main attraction for investors. Although, at the moment the price of Bitcoin is down again, prices can also soar, can be seen from the trend of year to year Bitcoin tends to be very positive. no one can know for sure whether the performance of Bitcoin will be more positive every year, or even decrease dramatically in the future that is clearly investing in Bitcoin and gold, I can say Bitcoin is still number one for investors at the moment even though there is news about itinvestors turn to gold.

Don't worry it is not going to happen with gold so just invest on the bitcoin and ready to face the risk and enjoyment.

I don't think why bitcoin investors should move to gold,because it is not going to give us 1000% profits in a year which is more possible with crypto investments.

Yes, this happened because these investors did not get a profit and even suffered huge losses in the last two years, and this forced them to invest in conventional commodities such as the stock market and gold, but I think this year those who leave bitcoin will regret because in the year this bitcoin will again skyrocket.

The current situation in the cryptocurrency market is forcing investors to look for other sources of income, including traditional assets. This is not particularly shocking, as investors are used to being where they are expecting a profit. With markets looking very shaky this season, it has already become clear that many are shifting their investment in precious metals.

I'm sure that some of this investors were the once who said Bitcoin is better than gold and now moving to gold lmao xD. But coming to the main point that gold is actually a more safe investment than Bitcoin but the profits aren't huge and also loses won't be huge too.

  Why people are dropping price by themselves because later one they will cry for low price so better not to put your money into such things which has physical presence as it will put your money in danger and anyone can steal your profit as holding gold in your house it surely not safe but bitcoin has wallet to use online for safety without any issue of reliability, no street robbing and hacking issue will effect your profit.

I don't know if this is true, but Bitcoin does have issues with the price and it is sitting low for quite a long time now. But that is not the reason for leaving Bitcoin and going on another asset. Bitcoin has had these problems before and people weren't making a big deal of it like now. I think this will settle soon and Bitcoin will gain back many investors.

This is just a pure speculation and there is nothing to back this statement, people invest in gold all the time and it is not a new thing, but how can they calculate that people who invested in bitcoin are moving away from this market and investing in gold, it is just an assumption and nothing else, the bitcoin market is down but that does not mean that people are moving away and investing elsewhere. The risk factor is an important aspect, gold is a safe investment without much downward movement but that cannot be said about any other market.

This doesn't even count as an assumption

I'd rather say it is pure speculation (even a conjecture of sorts). How come? There is simple logic why it is highly unlikely (i.e. people moving from Bitcoin to gold). Gold and Bitcoin lie at the two opposite ends of the investment "stick" (or stack), so to speak. Gold is for those who want to preserve their wealth, while Bitcoin is for those who want to multiply it fast ("get rich quick")

In simple terms, there is no way there can be a direct transition en masse between the two as there are many intermediate stages in between (like stocks, bonds, currencies, etc), which are less volatile than Bitcoin but still not quite on par with gold. So you would actually expect people to use these assets before moving to gold in the end

it will be wrong to assume such, bitcoin investor are not abandoning bitcoin for gold, but there is nothing absolutely wrong with a bitcoin investor diversifying to gold, but selling bitcoin for gold is a fallacy.

- Well, investors actually turned to gold when it was more stable and secure than bitcoin, this seems like an intention that they have planned for a long time, making a profit from bitcoin then moving to gold, their properties will be guaranteed. Although they will probably come back as you say but I believe they or anyone here, we can all recognize the dangers that are gradually getting bigger from bitcoin, we will not pour too much money into bitcoin as in the past, risks and losses are overwhelming all the benefits that bitcoin can bring

I think maybe yes other bitcoin investors are moving to gold but maybe others gold investors have investment to the bitcoin too and are others are really wants bitcoin compared to gold. It's both good investment and for sure what ever you choose you will got more profit.  There is different good advatanges if you investing but they still have disadvantages when you investing make a research to find out.

If those people whose coming back with bitcoin has a brighter expectations with bitcoin, learned a lot of knowledge since bear market challenged a lot of people. This ultimate bear trend implied serious commitment in making every trader put crypto into a very important asset, which is much more important than physical currency. Digital currency became more unique now compared with paper money.

Agreed, i think NOT all bitcoin investors moving to gold, there are some but not that many. I think most of bitcoin investors become a trader too because with the crypto market that easily changed and the price can go up and down easily, this situation is a good one for trader. For investor that afraid of that stuff, will move their btc into gold.

So whats this post going to do with the topic?or is this just own opinion?Lol

People that known cryptocurrency well for sure not take the risk of putting their money in Gold again because aside from assurances of being physical and constantly growth ,Gold is just like banking investing when your earnings annually is just a cents of your investments so for me cryptonians will choose to wait and re enter bitcoin investing than doing such action

Then whats the next news?
When the Bitcoin price went up again we could see some head lines,
Gold investors moving to Bitcoin,
It would only take some time before they begin to move back into crypto again.

I don't think that is is random at all. Like you said they do it because of Bitcoin's lack of stability.

Right now what matters is that the really low price have been there for a while now and that makes a lot of people diversify their investments, they get more money to invest and since they noticed the market's state they invest it in someone safer for now.

Depends on each individual mindset really, but those who go towards economic analysts tend to draw a pattern based on what they are recommending which is usually the most conservative option.