Be careful with your price comparisons. by Lorcan Roche Kelly
With a 94 percent year-to-date gain, and a single "coin" now worth $1,843, bitcoin has been on a helluva run lately.
The increase in the cost of the massively-volatile electronic tokens has led to many comparisons with that other favorite outsider "currency'' — gold — recently.
True, a unit of Bitcoin passed the dollar value of one troy ounce of gold this year, and is now more than $600 higher.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-12/and-a-bitcoin-is-now-worth