Investing in bitcoin is more secure than investing in gold ?

[virtualmaster]

Is investing in bitcoin more secure than investing in gold ?
If you invest a lot of money in gold where to put it to be secure ?
In Fort Knox may be is secure. Or may be not ?
http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/04/16/federal-reserve-refuses-to-submit-to-an-audit-of-germanys-gold-held-in-u-s-vaults/

[der_troll]

Investing in gold is of course more secure than investing in Bitcoin. At least if you store it in your own home, somewhere safe (hidden room or something).

[Gabi]

Gold is safe if you physically own it. In your home for example. If you only own a piece of paper then it is not safe.

While with bitcoin, you OWN the bitcoins even with a simple paperwallet.

[virtualmaster]

http://privisi.com/2013/04/30/bitcoin-vs-gold/

[barbarousrelic]

Is investing in bitcoin more secure than investing in gold ?
If you invest a lot of money in gold where to put it to be secure ?
In Fort Knox may be is secure. Or may be not ?
http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/04/16/federal-reserve-refuses-to-submit-to-an-audit-of-germanys-gold-held-in-u-s-vaults/

I assure you nobody on this forum was considering stashing gold in Fort Knox.

[btcmind]

uh, sources? in general I wouldn't trust any certificates (paper), after what I have come to know about central banks and banks. even COMEX does fractional reserve on their silver futures.

early half of Germany’s gold reserves are held in a vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — billions of dollars worth of postwar geopolitical history squirreled away for safe keeping below the streets of Lower Manhattan.
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Germany recently counted and tested all of the thousands of gold bars it keeps in foreign banks.
Now the German central bank wants to make a big withdrawal — 300 tons in all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/business/global/german-central-bank-to-repatriate-gold-reserves.html?_r=0

[zeroday]

http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/04/16/federal-reserve-refuses-to-submit-to-an-audit-of-germanys-gold-held-in-u-s-vaults/

This article is probably a fake. No facts, no names, no sources.

[LaggedOnUser]

The #1 rule of investing is to diversify.  Given that gold and bitcoin have different strengths and weaknesses, and tend to advance or fail at different times and in different ways, the best course of action is to diversify and invest some measure in both.  Thus the choice "bitcoin versus gold" is a false dichotomy, and one should ideally choose both.

[zeroday]

In 2012 I invested in both gold and bitcoin. By today, with gold I lost 20% but with bitcoin I gained 3000%. Now bitcoin is the largest asset in my portfolio.
However, I still find gold more safe/stable investment in long term (10y and over).

[virtualmaster]

Just another article which compares both
http://www.businessinsider.com/three-reasons-gold-is-like-bitcoin-2013-4

[LaggedOnUser]

In 2012 I invested in both gold and bitcoin. By today, with gold I lost 20% but with bitcoin I gained 3000%. Now bitcoin is the largest asset in my portfolio.
However, I still find gold more safe/stable investment in long term (10y and over).

At this point, I believe it is traditional to do portfolio rebalancing and transfer some of your Bitcoin winnings into gold.  That can help you capture your gains from the Bitcoin bubble in case it collapses.  That's basic asset allocation strategy.

Furthermore, I agree with your estimate on the safety of gold despite your losses.

[chronocoin]

Paper gold is like a web-wallet, but that doesn't mean the real McCoy has any of the same issues.

[wumpus]

Gold is safe if you physically own it. In your home for example. If you only own a piece of paper then it is not safe.

I suppose gold is a very secure investment if you can afford a high-quality safe, armed guards 24/7, and live in a bunker. Otherwise, storing even moderate physical quantities of gold in your house sounds like a very unsecure idea.

[gogxmagog]

Paper gold is like a web-wallet, but that doesn't mean the real McCoy has any of the same issues.

dude, the banks don't have 10% of the gold that they issue on paper. if every paper gold holder tried to get their gold in physical form ... see 1980 silver manipulations as example.

also; gold thousands of years used as currency
bitcoin; an experiment 4 years in.

just sayin

[virtualmaster]

http://www.thebitcoinchannel.com/archives/9114

[Quantor Blockchain]

Here is a point of view:
If you take a look at index Dow Jones performance 50 years ago you can see it was below 1000 points but now it's above 23000. The question is how many people got bankruptcy invested in DJIA? Whether it's gold, BTC, or Dow Jones you still face the same risk as an inexperienced investor.

[mahessapap]

For now of course investment in gold is safer, but maybe for the future investment in bitcoin is more profitable and safe (not just bitcoin but depends on cryptocurrency). What makes people think now if investing in bitcoin is not safe because you know for yourself that bitcoin is not controlled by anyone and the price is fluctuating. Essentially it all depends on your own decision for now.

[jimn]

Both are secure and safe investments nowadays. Investing in Bitcoin can't be more secure than investing in gold because gold is much older and trusted than bitcoin worldwide, but Bitcoin is also having very high price and really promising potential.

[Phoenixpple]

Perhaps I should say, bitcoin investment more than gold investment income. For a long time, in fact, is the devaluation of gold. However, I think now bitcoin investment which contains some bubbles. Temporary bitcoin application is still relatively small, to support bitcoin high prices, I think there should be more practical projects and bitcoin combination.

[tryer12]

Gold is more secure at the moment.