Front page of the BBC!

[Dimelord]

yes bitcoin price has exceeded price of 1 ounce of gold.We, the early birds will be in a far better stage in future when new investors enter bitcoin.They would be struggling to buy even 0.1 btc while we would be millionaires.Yes, Bitcoin is the digital gold.

[swogerino]

yes bitcoin price has exceeded price of 1 ounce of gold.We, the early birds will be in a far better stage in future when new investors enter bitcoin.They would be struggling to buy even 0.1 btc while we would be millionaires.Yes, Bitcoin is the digital gold.

With it surpassing gold price this will be it's biggest test to see if it can hold it's price for a long time to come.

[BitcoinHodler]

yes bitcoin price has exceeded price of 1 ounce of gold.We, the early birds will be in a far better stage in future when new investors enter bitcoin.They would be struggling to buy even 0.1 btc while we would be millionaires.Yes, Bitcoin is the digital gold.

With it surpassing gold price this will be it's biggest test to see if it can hold it's price for a long time to come.

this gold price was just a price that we past nothing more. and these numbers are just numbers and have not much importance apart from some temporary publicity boost.

the important part is the performance of bitcoin and it was great so far. we have been rising for a couple of years now. and you can't find that in any other market and investors look at this not how much bitcoin is worth!

[Phil_S]

BBC News, about the crazy guy with 18 bitcoins: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39154348/i-bought-bitcoins-in-2011---now-theyre-worth-19000

[CryptoBjorn]

Well yes it's just getting better now.

Media explaining bitcoin, instead of bashing bitcoin and bitcoin holders.
They finally see the true goal of bitcoin, decentralized storage of wealth secure in a advanced blockchain ledger. Give it time and large finance news media will write about bitcoin too.

[Wind_FURY]

Direct comparison between gold and bitcoin is kinda pointless. We are using 1 ounce to show that Bitcoin reached gold parity.
It's stupid and inaccurate. How about other standards and denominations like Gram and Kilo?
I am glad that bitcoin found itself on the front page of the BBC. There is nothing better than free advertisement.

You are just nitpicking. So what if they used the most common unit of measure of gold and compared it with Bitcoin. The commodity markets use the ounce and so should we. If BTC has reached parity then it did to some degree. You should be happy.

[alphabeta0]

What's up with the surging demand in China? Does this help aid human rights? I'd expect the growth potential to be huge as more developing countries sign on.