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May 07, 2025, 05:45:56 PM
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The biggest secret is that banks buying crypto a lot not gold the gold is for retail buyers.
How do you know if it's such a huge secret? Do you have a private channel where bankers talk to you about their plan or something? I don't know, it sounds like you're just seeing what you want to see. It doesn't make sense for them to abandon gold even if they're going to buy more crypto, because it has a good record for a hundred years now. Most people still don't think crypto is as safe as gold, so there's a huge chance they'll just withdraw their money from the bank if they know about this.
No offense but I think OP doesn't know what he's talking about or he's telling us about his dream.

According to several reports from the World Gold Council, central banks have increased their gold holdings in recent years due to increasingly volatile geopolitical situations. In particular, the PBOC has accumulated an unprecedented amount of gold in recent years to prepare for China's de-dollarization idea. So, without concrete evidence, the claim that central banks are selling gold to buy crypto is a BS claim.
Crypto is just a speculative market, banks will not need such risky assets.

Hopefully, any banks investing into bitcoin are able to recognize the difference between bitcoin and crypto, and so in that sense, any of them that have any clues would be ONLY investing into bitcoin - not shitcoins and/or crypto.  Sure, some of them might not know the difference between bitcoin and crypto. .and they might be distracted into thinking that various shitcoins are valuable.

This makes absolutely no sense. Why would banks give up their gold to buy Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies? They could simply buy cryptocurrencies with their cash without compromising their gold...

I remember a senator had an idea for the United States to sell part of its gold reserves to buy Bitcoin, but the proposal was rejected. I don't think banks or governments would give up their precious gold for cryptocurrencies. If they were to buy Bitcoin, it would make more sense for them to give up their inflated fiat currency, not their precious gold.

You can proclaim that it makes no sense to sell gold and buy bitcoin, yet both will happen.  You likely do not understand bitcoin if you are thinking that gold is as valuable as bitcoin in terms of its various monetary properties. Does it need to be repeated?  Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility, ability to privately hold without as many costs and other monetary properties.

Banks, financial institutions, other institutions, governments and individuals will buy bitcoin and they will sell gold. It is already happening and will continue to happen, and sure it might not happen exactly in the order that you might expect and the action of buying bitcoin and/or selling gold is not always going to be clear, including the existence of paper gold/bitcoin and the existence of actual gold/bitcoin might sometimes cause confusion between the actual product and the various kinds of derivatives (and whether the derivatives are backed up). 

Sure, some of institutions, governments and/or individuals will continue to hang onto that relic shiny rock, but sooner or later most of them, and then later all of them will recognize and/or appreciate the writing on the wall and that bitcoin is multiples, magnitudes and perhaps even in the 1,000x or more valuable than gold (referring to actual monetary properties and how each are valued in terms of market cap).  Sure, some will go to their graves remaining poor and without bitcoin and in denial and perhaps even some will continue to cling onto their shiny objects, so there will likely continue to be those folks and perhaps some will even pass such outdated ideas onto the next generation, yet they are going to continue to be relative losers as compared to the folks allocating into bitcoin.   

No bitcoin is not the same as shitcoins.. Even the title of the thread is wrong since crypto does not matter too much in terms of the value and competition with gold, and bitcoin is where the innovation exists in which digital scarcity has been largely resolved and the various meaningful network effects (as outlined by Trace Mayer) have been growing on bitcoin and will continue to grow on bitcoin ..

Sure, there will be some who continue to not recognize the prize (bitcoin) and who are distracted into shitcoins and/or into other nonsense and/or believing that gold will recover.. but even some of them will end up realizing their mistakes and most if not all of that value will gravitate into bitcoin with the passage of time. and sure it could take 50-200 years for bitcoin/gold to actually reach an approximation of their relative values in which bitcoin is in the ballpark of 1,000x or more valuable than gold, so it is not as if the future can be known with any level of precision, and it is not even guaranteed to play out, even though any of us should be attempting to figure out our own allocations so that we are not fooled into thinking that gold has any kind of meaningful chance against bitcoin, even if maybe some of us might consider keeping up to 10% of our value in gold as compared with bitcoin, it may also not be necessary to keep any value in gold, since bitcoin serves such purposes (hedge against the dollar and other corruptions of the fiat-based systems), even better than gold - with bitcoin's unfair advantage of being in its relatively early adoption phases.

Retail buying gold and banks selling them to buy crypto.
Gold is useless for banks in the new financial system gold is not corruption free like btc or crypto there is no actual track of gold how much gold is minted and controlled so bankers don't need gold they need btc and crypto.
Retail buying gold so bankers selling gold and buying crypto.
The biggest secret is that banks buying crypto a lot not gold the gold is for retail buyers.
Which of the cryptocurrency are the banks buying?

Is there a source to this your points or you're working on assumption?

Only bitcoin, and I am not going to provide any sources. Hopefully, you can figure out these matters for yourself so that you can also invest into bitcoin rather than being distracted into overly allocating into gold.

Now what i have to say is this, gold is no more invoking as before because it is centralized, while bitcoin is decentralized, gold is in physical form while bitcoin in digital form, there are many things to consider why bitcoin in cryptocurrency should have more edge than gold starting form its profitability down to other benefits.

Both bitcoin and gold have paperized versions, so even with bitcoin, we cannot always be clear if the institutions have the quantity of bitcoin that they claim to have.  It does become more difficult to fractional reserve bitcoin since it is much easier to take possession of your bitcoin, yet it still seems likely that there are going to exist quite a few instances in which third parties are not going to have the bitcoin that they claim to have, and some of them may well end up wrecking themselves and wrecking any clients that rely on their having the bitcoin that they claim to have.  It is difficult to know how all of this is going to play out, since surely even in bitcoin there are some BIG players who are likely playing around with paper bitcoin.. and perhaps even thinking that they can manipulate bitcoin like has been done with gold over the past 20-30 years or so.  Of course, some of the recent craziness in gold prices may well relate to suspicions that some entities do not have the physical gold that they had previously claimed to have had.  It is difficult to know how these matters re going to play out, even though we know that it is a lot easier to take physical possession of bitcoin (the private keys) as compared with taking physical possession of gold, yet some folks, institutions and governments have intentionally entered into contracts in which they are not able to take possession of their claim on bitcoin, so from time to time, there surely are going to end up being questions in terms of if the entities who supposedly are holding the bitcoin (the private keys) actually have the quantity of bitcoin that they claim to have.

Retail buying gold and banks selling them to buy crypto.
You are telling this with such confidence as if you have inside information. Give examples of which banks are getting rid of gold and buying crypto.

I am not going to try to defend Mansory22022 here, yet he does not seem to be wrong.. at least when it comes to bitcoin.  I doubt crypto matters, but bitcoin sure.

Gold is useless for banks in the new financial system
What new financial system? At the moment, the world still has the same traditional financial system. Changes have not yet occurred.

The new financial system is not necessarily going to announce itself to you, and so hopefully on an individual level, you have been making sure that you gain exposure to bitcoin in order to skate where the puck is going rather than skating to where it is.   Since you have been registered and participating in this forum since 2017, you should know better m2017.

gold is not corruption free like btc or crypto there is no actual track of gold how much gold is minted and controlled
Who told you that? Quite the contrary, it is one of the controlled spheres. Banks are not some pawn shop off the street.

Maybe Mansory22022 is not 100% accurate, yet it seems that he is directionally correct, since it is way easier to audit bitcoin (every 10 minutes) as compared with gold, whether we are referring to physical gold or the various paper claims to gold. You better be careful m2017 if you are placing so much reliance on the supposed "controlled spheres" of gold, since many of us should already realize that there are likely around 100x  or more paper claims to gold than what gold actually exists, and sure, I don't have the exact data, yet it seems to me that bitcoin's verifiability gives it a lot of advantages over gold, including affecting the dynamics in terms of how easy it is to manipulate gold as compared with bitcoin, yet surely there are going to be a lot of similar attempts to manipulate bitcoin,

yet bitcoin's characteristics are surely going to cause challenges in regards to whether bitcoin is going to be able to be as manipulated as gold.. and so sure, we still have to see how the manipulation attempts are going to play out, and bitcoin is surely not guaranteed to be victorious in regards to its not being manipulated.  Personally, each of us should be attempt to figure out our own allocations, and even how we might hold bitcoin based on our own confidences, which in spite of some of bitcoin's potential faults, it seems that bitcoin is in a better than gold to withstand various manipulation attempts (it was designed for such, but they are not 100% guaranteed to withstand all of the possible attacks).

so bankers don't need gold they need btc and crypto. Retail buying gold so bankers selling gold and buying crypto.
If this were the case, banks would have started buying up crypto long ago. Somehow this is not observed.

You may be correct that banks are largely laggards when it comes to their bitcoin allocation (who cares about crypto?), yet it seems that they are ongoingly coming around to bitcoin, whether you recognize such dynamic or not.   Some will end up buying bitcoin directly (or custodying it for clients) and others will be buying exposure through bitcoin spot ETFs or maybe buying MSTR or some other similar stocks.  Sure, it might not be very prevalent for banks to be buying and/or holding bitcoin but they are increasingly looking into it and likely becoming more and more sympathetic to bitcoin, even though they likely recognize and/or appreciate bitcoin as a pretty stiff competitor.  Sure some of them will get involved in stable coins, but the only part that really matters is their bitcoin strategy to the extent that their bitcoin strategy is still evolving.  By the way, banks have quite a few restrictions, and even in the USA, many banks were being attacked for their being involved in bitcoin, and so recently some of those restrictions have been relaxed, which is likely going to continue to motivate banks to get involved in bitcoin.. whether custody or holding in their treasuries.

The biggest secret is that banks buying crypto a lot not gold the gold is for retail buyers.
It is no secret that banks make money by selling gold to retail buyers, because every bank offers this service. If it were not profitable, there would be no such offer.

You are likely correct that banks have historically bought and sold gold, and they may well continue in such practice as long as it remains profitable.  I don't have any personal experience in it, yet I heard that Costco's recent entrance into the gold selling business has been pretty profitable for them, yet I think that Costco only sells gold, and they do not buy gold... so anyone buying gold then has to figure out where to sell it, and I usually hear about gold being bought at places like pawn shops and I had never really heard about being able to sell gold through a bank, even though maybe the bank deals with paper gold rather than physical gold?  and maybe it depends on jurisdiction regarding what the banks are doing or able to do in regards to either buying and/or selling gold and in the future if some of them might get involved in buying and/or selling bitcoin (and perhaps shitcoins?).

Even If gold have utility and use case then corporations want to buy gold for cheap off course they do that when gold crashing while btc and crypto will go up.
All this gold shilling what's going on is just for bankers to get rid of their gold and buy btc you see brics nations buying up gold so that gomex of western countries can use gold futures to manipulate gold price up without even buying gold with eur usd or gbp currency.

Gold now is biggest dump project on the silly retail traders with the help of india and china together with wall street and western bankers.
I couldn't get through it and read it to the end.

No offense, but it sounds like a tabloid text. Where's the proof?

You may be correct that Mansory22022 could outline his various ideas a bit better in terms of gold getting dropped and bitcoin getting picked up, yet he likely is directionally correct - even though these matters take time to play out.

Even If gold have utility and use case then corporations want to buy gold for cheap off course they do that when gold crashing while btc and crypto will go up.
All this gold shilling what's going on is just for bankers to get rid of their gold and buy btc you see brics nations buying up gold so that gomex of western countries can use gold futures to manipulate gold price up without even buying gold with eur usd or gbp currency.
I am not trying to say gold is a dumping because it has been a good reserve for a long time but now that bitcoin is more popular there is a case to be made for buying it.
Most countries have been considering bitcoin as a strategic reserve and maybe they are starting to realize the long term effects that bitcoin can have.
Gold is much safer but the returns are quite slow so some countries are starting to take the risk for the new challenge in bitcoin.

Gold is also increasing in terms of reserves and most countries are increasing their gold reserves instead of selling them.
So there are certain reasons why gold and bitcoin are the choice of many countries now and maybe many of us have our views on this.

Since you have been on the forum since 2015 tottong, you should recognize and appreciate that adoption and/or allocation of bitcoin versus gold is not a static situation, whether we are referring to institutions (financial or otherwise), individuals and/or governments, and any of us should recognize/appreciate that bitcoin is becoming more and more adopted with the passage of time and more and more systems coming into place to facilitate its increasing adoption, including ways that institutions/governments and individuals can get in more easily through financialization products, such as the bitcoin spot ETFs and/or purchasing of stocks like MSTR that largely attempt to reflect bitcoin adoption/price/and/or leverage on bitcoin adoption/price, yet you seem to believe that gold is also getting adopted more and more by governments, which seems that you are getting distracted by some short-term gold flow (and short-term gold pumpening) dynamics, which are not likely to be lasting in regards to BIG picture momentum that we have around the actual superior monetary attributes of bitcoin as compared with gold and also the unfair advantage that bitcoin has in terms of it being so damned early in its adoption curve, that any of us should be nuts if we are even considering bitcoin to be even close to a mature asset in terms of comparing bitcoin to gold or to any other asset/monetary location that we might choose to allocate time, energy and/or value.

By the way tottong, your assertion that gold has been a good reserve seems to be out of touch with reality.  Sure in long term historical terms gold might have had been a good reserve, yet since the introduction of bitcoin (even if we start fro 2012), gold has barely performed around the same as equities and/or property, which means that they were largely just staying the same as the debasement of the dollar, so yeah any of us would have had been better off to keep our value in gold, equities and/or property as compared with keeping our value in the dollar, yet that does not mean that gold, equities and/or properties appreciated much if any in terms of their value - as compared with bitcoin.. and surely since 2012, bitcoin has gone from about $5 to $96k, which is right around 19,000x..

and sure, the whole situation of bitcoin as compared with gold is a bit unfair since bitcoin is still in its very early stages of adoption (in spite of the ongoing retarded claims that try to suggest bitcoin is either a mature asset or that bitcoin has already had its pump), and bitcoin's future performance as compared with gold's future performance is quite likely going to continue to be quite unfair since only around 1% of the world's population has any kind of allocation to bitcoin (in spite rich folks, some institutions and some governments talking about and perhaps even acting upon hoarding it), so we are still in early stages and even unfair stages when it comes bitcoin adoption and to how bitcoin is likely going to continue to perform as compared with gold, and hopefully guys participating in this forum are not so dumb as to put any more than 10% the size of their bitcoin investment size into gold, and even 10% into gold as compared to what they have put in bitcoin is likely too much, but sure, guys can do what they like..including getting wrecked if they are of the belief that gold has hardly any chance to perform even close to bitcoin in the coming years.. and it is not merely because bitcoin is "popular," as some guys here have mentioned, but instead because bitcoin is a superior and more sound money as compared with gold and as compared with any other asset and/or money that is currently available as a possible alternative place to allocate time, energy and/or value.

I am not trying to say gold is a dumping because it has been a good reserve for a long time but now that bitcoin is more popular there is a case to be made for buying it.
As you said it is a good reserve and has been and I think that many countries are still holding on to their gold reserves. Buying bitcoin does not mean they will be totally replacing gold. Maybe they are just focusing on increasing their bitcoin reserve since they probably already have more of gold. Bitcoin seems to be a lot more volatile than gold which is riskier but also serves more opportunities for bigger profit so that might be why they are focusing on bitcoin more. But if you have enough funds, why not invest in both?

It seem that only both as long as you are aiming towards having bitcoin around 90% of the proportion and gold to be no more than 10% of the size of the bitcoin.  Anything close to 50/50 would be retarded and failure/refusal to recognize the superiority of bitcoin. 

Sure, several traditional institutions and older gold bug oriented institutions, governments and/or individuals might overly allocate to gold and/or fail/refuse to appreciate that bitcoin is the superior place to be putting time, energy and value, yet if they at least get off zero bitcoin and slowly continue to increase their bitcoin holdings, then they are at least heading in the right direction, and those who allocate to bitcoin sooner (and more) rather than later are likely going to fare better than those who are either slow to allocate, whimpy to allocate or fail/refuse to allocate to bitcoin because they are living in the past. 

There is a need to recognize that bitcoin has been invented and/or discovered, and bitcoin is a paradigm changing asset that slowly is growing in its network effects and going to likely continue to take over the world, even though sure it is still small and it takes time for systems to evolve, even though some will adopt sooner and others will continue to be laggards.

Of course, institutions, and governments tend to be conservative (and some are even hostile to bitcoin), and sometimes institutions are slow to move in terms of their investments, which gives individuals advantages as long as individuals both see the place to allocate their value and as long as individuals take action to allocate towards bitcoin rather than sitting on their hands, whine about changes in the world and/or denying that allocation into bitcoin would be the right and/or the more appropriate course of action for any one who has discretionary income.  Sure, some folks do not have discretionary income, so they likely will not be directly advantaged by bitcoin unless they can figure out ways  to increase their discretionary income so that they are able to invest in bitcoin.. .yet even without discretionary income, individuals are still likely to be advantaged by the more fair monetary/value systems that bitcoin incentivizes.

But gold also still be used for corruption because who doesn't want to have gold? Grin

Yeah sure..  as of now, gold is still valuable.. but not as valuable as bitcoin, whether referring to present value or expected future value..

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"There's no actual track of how much gold is minted". Well gold is mined, however the amount that goes through mints is generally public knowledge, but even that is irrelevant because demand is high and production is much lower. If you're going to make such bold and blind claims, you'd look much less silly if you actually backed it up with hard evidence - because right now it's just your imagination and a pack of unfounded lies. It would make sense that banks and other financial institutions get involved with bitcoin, but they don't really care about the "currency" because they already trade in many different currencies - this is nothing new to them.

Sure it is better when any of us back up our statements, yet the mere fact that some statements are not backed up does not make them to be lies or to not be directionally correct... which generally speaking bitcoin is increasing in adoption relative to gold and gold is going to continue to have its lunch eaten by bitcoin, so that is the general direction (and likely to continue to be the direction), whether any of us back up our statements or not.

I don't know the yastic used by these banks that are selling gold so they can invest in Bitcoin because Gold is one thing that countries stored their wealth on because of it's value because gold is one commodity that never depreciate making it one of the most valued commodities on earth many people will not sell their gold in the place of Bitcoin.

Just because you do not see it does not mean that it is not happening.. .which is an overall, ongoing and persistent movement of value into bitcoin, whether from gold or from the various other ways that value is held in less efficient ways than it can be held in bitcoin... there is no asset (or money), whether gold or otherwise that holds its value as well as bitcoin, since bitcoin is superior to all of the other assets/monies  in terms of its monetary properties, so value is going to continue to flow into bitcoin (including the ideas of Gresham's law) whether you can see it or not.

Bitcoin is one thing that is revolutionizing the entire financial sector as it's now a means of investments so I will not advice anyone to sell his or her gold so that they can buy Bitcoin as Bitcoin of them are stores of value

You make little sense.  Sure, maybe sometimes other things will be sold prior to selling gold in order to buy bitcoin, yet at some point, there may well be a realization that bitcoin is a better store of value and so therefore, there will be reallocations into bitcoin rather than gold, whether reaching 90% allocations of bitcoin as compared to gold or most likely less, since even holding 10% in gold as compared to bitcoin may be overly allocated into an inferior asset/money as compared with bitcoin.

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May 07, 2025, 07:04:36 PM
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I don’t think your statements are true OP. In fact, the reality is the exact opposite of what you are saying. China has been hoarding gold for a while now and I don’t see any news telling they are hoarding any btc. They even banned crypto mining there.

I am not saying there aren’t any banks that hoard btc, some surely do but they hoard gold much, much more.

Btc has its uses and many people/institutions already hodl btc but banks still haven’t fully joined the party.

I have been reading the news for months and they say banks hoard gold all the time. Find me any news that says some central bank somewhere hoarding btc. El Salvador maybe. Yeah cool. What about the developed countries? They are still hesitant.

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I don’t think your statements are true OP. In fact, the reality is the exact opposite of what you are saying. China has been hoarding gold for a while now and I don’t see any news telling they are hoarding any btc. They even banned crypto mining there.
I am not saying there aren’t any banks that hoard btc, some surely do but they hoard gold much, much more.

Btc has its uses and many people/institutions already hodl btc but banks still haven’t fully joined the party.
I have been reading the news for months and they say banks hoard gold all the time. Find me any news that says some central bank somewhere hoarding btc. El Salvador maybe. Yeah cool. What about the developed countries? They are still hesitant.

Good luck if you are holding more than 10% of the size of your bitcoin holdings in gold.  You are going to need it.

You can downplay the importance of bitcoin all that you like, yet think about guys that may have been accumulating bitcoin in the past 1-2 cycles, and yeah maybe we should go back to your forum registration date in late 2013 to show that there are close to 3 cycles at play in terms of the time that you could have had been accumulating bitcoin and/or focusing on bitcoin - yet surely you have admitted that you have made mistakes in regards to bitcoin, yet still anyone accumulating bitcoin in the past 1-2 or even 3 cycles have especially outperformed gold, especially if they might have had frontloaded their bitcoin investment.

Sure gold has had a little bit of a renaissance in the past 6 months, yet I doubt that renaissance indicates anything meaningful in terms that any of us should be distracting ourselves and/or allocating into gold more than 10% the size of our bitcoin holdings, and even 10% allocation into gold is likely way too much for most folks since bitcoin is likely going to continue to outperform gold since it is the stronger of the monies (and/or assets), even if the banks and/or governments might be lagging in their adoption of bitcoin and their still seeming to have some leanings on gold...

Also, you can measure what you are going to do based on what you believe banks and/or governments to be doing, yet the banks and governments are going to have to come around to bitcoin and they are lagging and they may also be a bit hostile to bitcoin, but still they are not going to have a choice since bitcoin is the stronger of the monies(assets), so you want to stick with what you believe governments and/or banks are doing, and presume that investing in gold is a good way to management your own personal finances, then you are likely lost and unable to distinguish the signal from the noise.. and yeah of course, it is your choice to have fun staying poor.

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Central banks have been net buyers of gold every year for a quarter century now at least, it would be surprising news to find we are setting a new paradigm.

The reason that gold has risen so much both in that base usage but more notably pricing as a lagging indicator is the US dollar and/or global reserve system is in generational decline especially due to excessive debt and in turn excessive currency issuance.
   At times previous we have seen nations with deflation or prices on average falling, a big positive like technology sector regularly sees deflation in pricing almost by expectation due to its vast growth and efficiency gains.
   Comparatively we have nations (at least in governance) doing the opposite, becoming less efficient, more debt with lower currency and people poorer while doing more work, its why Trump is elected to the surprise of the richest elitist politicians who cannot understand they have failed voters most of whom are poor.

In some dystopian projections of the future, some imagine technology overtakes politics partly for this reason.   The efficiency of machines becomes far more vital then the endless hot air production of political rhetoric, such that it becomes the central power of every nation.

  I dont believe we can rely on technology to that extent, people are the nations greatest asset.  Gold is unlikely to decline because its so simple and basically indestructible where as business can be disrupted and tech sector requires a vast amount of investment ultimately from the people, they are originators of the nations wealth not anything else so I do think gold continues in its basic simple function.
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May 08, 2025, 05:17:21 AM
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Even if that's true I can understand, not much utility for gold meanwhile BTC is the hottest high performing asset of now.

Always remember gold supply is not finite, like it or not there are so many ways for gold to lose its value in the future with advancement of technology, it only need one asteroid with gold content that's mineable + sufficient space mining tech and gold value will plummet and honestly
we're not really far from that. Some people might call me lunatic for saying this.

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May 08, 2025, 05:26:05 AM
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This makes absolutely no sense. Why would banks give up their gold to buy Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies? They could simply buy cryptocurrencies with their cash without compromising their gold...

I remember a senator had an idea for the United States to sell part of its gold reserves to buy Bitcoin, but the proposal was rejected. I don't think banks or governments would give up their precious gold for cryptocurrencies. If they were to buy Bitcoin, it would make more sense for them to give up their inflated fiat currency, not their precious gold.

You can proclaim that it makes no sense to sell gold and buy bitcoin, yet both will happen.  You likely do not understand bitcoin if you are thinking that gold is as valuable as bitcoin in terms of its various monetary properties. Does it need to be repeated?  Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility, ability to privately hold without as many costs and other monetary properties.

Banks, financial institutions, other institutions, governments and individuals will buy bitcoin and they will sell gold. It is already happening and will continue to happen, and sure it might not happen exactly in the order that you might expect and the action of buying bitcoin and/or selling gold is not always going to be clear, including the existence of paper gold/bitcoin and the existence of actual gold/bitcoin might sometimes cause confusion between the actual product and the various kinds of derivatives (and whether the derivatives are backed up). 
First, I would like to thank you for this detailed explanation and comprehensive comparison between gold and Bitcoin. I also share your vision for the future of Bitcoin, which is better than gold in this digital age we live in, for the reasons you mentioned, such as Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility andability to privately hold without high costsetc...

However, most governments don't realize this at the moment, and I don't expect any of them to be inspired to see the future and prefer Bitcoin to gold. Many of them are not convinced about Bitcoin yet, but I expect that to change in the near future..

On the other hand, if you have cash and gold in your reserve, which one would you choose to buy Bitcoin with? For me, I would choose cash because it has no real value, while gold retains its value over time. This is what I meant in my previous post.

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May 08, 2025, 06:28:22 AM
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While gold will stay, crypto will go up too. I am sure that we are going to end up with a better result with crypto soon enough, all because nations are either buying bitcoin, pr they do not sell the coins they get one way or another.

For example, if a criminal does something and cops seize his bitcoin, the government puts them in sort of reserve, and not sell it. Back in the day, they sold it and that was the worst part because they would end up selling bunch of it all at the same time and cost us to have much worse results. This is why we need to be happy that these governments are keeping their coins, or even some are buying more, so it is a great thing for us. If we can convince them to just do this, nothing more, just this, then bitcoin has a very bright future ahead of it.

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May 08, 2025, 09:43:26 AM
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As you said it is a good reserve and has been and I think that many countries are still holding on to their gold reserves. Buying bitcoin does not mean they will be totally replacing gold. Maybe they are just focusing on increasing their bitcoin reserve since they probably already have more of gold. Bitcoin seems to be a lot more volatile than gold which is riskier but also serves more opportunities for bigger profit so that might be why they are focusing on bitcoin more. But if you have enough funds, why not invest in both?

That's a fact that happened because even though many countries have considered the adoption of Bitcoin as a strategic step, it does not mean they are throwing gold.
Bitcoin is quite speculative compared to gold, but in terms of durability is not much different and we can see when a recession occurs and Bitcoin is still standing so strong.
This is talking about the state and I don't think it's funds that are a problem, but rather how the approach can be done based on the right study.

See how the country has done it and may be a reference for other countries because gold and Bitcoin are a hedge despite different speculative speaking.

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Central banks have been net buyers of gold every year for a quarter century now at least, it would be surprising news to find we are setting a new paradigm.

Surprise!!!!!

Bitcoin went live January 3, 2009.

Sure it has been taking a while for bitcoin to catch on, yet in the past 16 plus years bitcoin has been growing in its network effects (as outlined by Trace Mayer).

So, yeah, a new paradigm is in play ever since 2009.  You might want to get some in case the new paradigm shifting technology that allows value to be communicated electronically without being duplicatable catches on.

The reason that gold has risen so much both in that base usage but more notably pricing as a lagging indicator is the US dollar and/or global reserve system is in generational decline especially due to excessive debt and in turn excessive currency issuance.

You must be looking at different data.. If we look at the past 14-ish years, then I see gold largely dropping in compared to bitcoin, even though sure maybe it is rising only in the past 6 months or so in regards to the dollar.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/bitcoin-vs-gold/

At times previous we have seen nations with deflation or prices on average falling, a big positive like technology sector regularly sees deflation in pricing almost by expectation due to its vast growth and efficiency gains.
   Comparatively we have nations (at least in governance) doing the opposite, becoming less efficient, more debt with lower currency and people poorer while doing more work, its why Trump is elected to the surprise of the richest elitist politicians who cannot understand they have failed voters most of whom are poor.

In some dystopian projections of the future, some imagine technology overtakes politics partly for this reason.   The efficiency of machines becomes far more vital then the endless hot air production of political rhetoric, such that it becomes the central power of every nation.

  I dont believe we can rely on technology to that extent, people are the nations greatest asset.

You are proclaiming that bitcoin is less important than gold as an investment because it is a technology?  

A lot of shitcoiners fail/refuse to understand bitcoin because they consider it as a technology rather than a sound money.  Probably lay persons also misunderstand bitcoin as a technology rather than as a sound money too.. and therefore they dismiss bitcoin's importance and/or its superiority to gold.

Sure, bitcoin uses technology in order to create a money that is more sound than any other money, yet the technological aspect of bitcoin not so important.. .but yeah, even longer term form members seem to fail/refuse to sufficiently understand bitcoin, which surely you should know better STT.. you been around here nearly a year longer than me.

Gold is unlikely to decline because its so simple and basically indestructible

Gold has been declining and it will continue to decline, especially relative to bitcoin, yet sure, if you measure gold in terms of dollars it may seem as if it is increasing in value.. .. but you should not be letting the dollar's debasement distract you from keeping your eye on the prize.. namely bitcoin.

where as business can be disrupted and tech sector requires a vast amount of investment ultimately from the people, they are originators of the nations wealth not anything else so I do think gold continues in its basic simple function.

You can believe all you like, and have fun staying poor (to the extent that you allocate in gold rather than bitcoin).

One of the aspects of bitcoin being such an immature asset remains that it will continue to appreciate in value much greater than gold or any other asset since it is in its earliest years of adoption.. so yeah, bitcoin's exponential s-curve still in progress.. which continues to give it an unfair advantages as compared with gold and/or any other assets, even though you seem to want to hang on to your shiny rock relic..

Even if that's true I can understand, not much utility for gold meanwhile BTC is the hottest high performing asset of now.

Bitcoin is not merely a fad. There are fundamentals that back it up.

Always remember gold supply is not finite, like it or not there are so many ways for gold to lose its value in the future with advancement of technology, it only need one asteroid with gold content that's mineable + sufficient space mining tech and gold value will plummet and honestly
we're not really far from that. Some people might call me lunatic for saying this.

Gold is not finite in its amounts on earth, either.. so bitcoin is more scarce than gold.

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First, I would like to thank you for this detailed explanation and comprehensive comparison between gold and Bitcoin. I also share your vision for the future of Bitcoin, which is better than gold in this digital age we live in, for the reasons you mentioned, such as Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility andability to privately hold without high costsetc...

However, most governments don't realize this at the moment, and I don't expect any of them to be inspired to see the future and prefer Bitcoin to gold. Many of them are not convinced about Bitcoin yet, but I expect that to change in the near future..

It is already changing.  If you had not noticed, bitcoin is more and more in the zeitgeist and falling more and more into more financial circles.  it is just a matter of time that the banks won't have a choice, whether they want to or not.

On the other hand, if you have cash and gold in your reserve, which one would you choose to buy Bitcoin with? For me, I would choose cash because it has no real value, while gold retains its value over time. This is what I meant in my previous post.

Many of us, even non-investors are frequently choosing which assets and/or currencies to spend first based on our perceptions of its tendencies to hold value or not.  So we will tend to spend from the one that we consider is not going to hold its value, and perceptions about bitcoin holding its value are changing with time.. and more and more folks are choosing not to spend from their bitcoin as soon as they would have had done years back..   Of course, if you have been holding bitcoin since 2012, and maybe you have 500 or more bitcoin, then you might not mind spending from your bitcoin, in the event that you might have spent from some of your other assets first.  

If someone holds a lot of gold, they may well choose to spend some of their gold rather than to continue to hold it.  We cannot get into the heads of everyone, and surely people are going to have differing individual factors in terms of their other investments, cashflow and perhaps how long they might have had been in various investments or currencies that they hold.

While gold will stay, crypto will go up too. I am sure that we are going to end up with a better result with crypto soon enough, all because nations are either buying bitcoin, pr they do not sell the coins they get one way or another.

Hopefully most people and/or banks are not so retarded as to get involved in crypto.

Bitcoin should be their area of focus, to the extent that they might be wanting to compare it to gold.

For example, if a criminal does something and cops seize his bitcoin, the government puts them in sort of reserve, and not sell it. Back in the day, they sold it and that was the worst part because they would end up selling bunch of it all at the same time and cost us to have much worse results. This is why we need to be happy that these governments are keeping their coins, or even some are buying more, so it is a great thing for us. If we can convince them to just do this, nothing more, just this, then bitcoin has a very bright future ahead of it.

It might not necessarily be in our interest that governments are buying and/or choosing to hoard bitcoin (and drive up the price), yet we cannot really stop who buys bitcoin, and they surely might not disclose their buys and/or their ongoing exposure to bitcoin unless they might be required to do so.

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May 08, 2025, 06:54:51 PM
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Even if that's true I can understand, not much utility for gold meanwhile BTC is the hottest high performing asset of now.

Always remember gold supply is not finite, like it or not there are so many ways for gold to lose its value in the future with advancement of technology, it only need one asteroid with gold content that's mineable + sufficient space mining tech and gold value will plummet and honestly
we're not really far from that. Some people might call me lunatic for saying this.
No one will call you lunatic because now in which era we are living many things are possible which was not looking to happen before this just because of this I am also feeling Gold price can be gone down with Bitcoin is surely having good future.

Increase of utility and as it's spreading now things are taking changes and confidence level is also increasing which is positive sign for community and world even still few things are creating mess up, but these could be also solved. Bitcoin is going to be rule in investment and many other things which are surely going to give new highs and many other opportunities which were looking not possible few years back many countries are now coming ahead for having positive strategy for bitcoin with few are also going to add this in as reserves which is surely huge breakthrough.

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JJG what are you referring to when you say that bitcoin is currently about 10x gold's price? Total market capitalization would be bitcoin = 1/10th of gold, which makes it even more attractive to investors. Since an nounce is a bit more than $3k, did you have a different unit in mind?

You are correct.  I made a mistake, since I was referring to bitcoin's market cap as compared with gold's market cap, and I had meant to say that bitcoin is currently about 1/10th of gold's valuation, so relative to gold bitcoin has around 10,000x to go in order to be approximately at a fair market value, which might take 50-200 years to play out, perhaps?

I edited my above post to show the correction to say 1/10th.. not 10x.

No harm done obviously, I thought you could be referring to a unit that I am somehow missing. Smiley

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I am not sure how much we need to get into details, since there are likely quite a few ways to measure it, yet even gold's value has been perverted by the various inaccuracies involved with our using the dollar as our measuring stick.

I suppose that we could find a basket of goods and then try to compare at various points in time, and I surely don't even like to measure bitcoin prior to 2012, since I think that is a bit unfair since bitcoin barely had a price at that time.  It is llikely even unfair today since bitcoin is still a very immature asset class, yet even if the whole game is unfair, and bitcoin is likely going to continue to grow stupendously based on it being an immature asset, as individuals, we likely should be trying to take advantage of such unfairness and surely one thing that really is fair about bitcoin is that it is available to everyone and anyone as long as they have some kind of a discretionary income that they can muster up to buy some bitcoin... sure gold is available to everyone and/or anyone too, even though surely gold is a lot less liquid than bitcoin and also we can look at the varying other monetary properties (such as scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility, costs/abilities in holding it and other monetary qualities) to see each of the ways that bitcoin is multiples (if not magnitudes?) better than gold and in the aggregate likely in the arena of 1,000x better than gold.

I couldn't agree more with everything you said here. I believe the biggest fear that many potential bitcoin investors have is that the blockchain could break and they themselves can't develop a final opinion on whether or not they can live with that risk in mind.

I am not a physicist and I have done some research sporadically whether gold could one day be created synthetically. One argument gold investors bring up is because gold has properties that can be used in electronics and other things like medical applications. I then tried to find out whether gold 2.0 could one day be created and it says that the energy required is too high and therefore prohibitively expensive. But who tells me whether an unknown breakthrough is in the making and a derivative could be created that fulfills all the requirements gold can fulfill? Or maybe 80% of it? The argument would at least fall apart partially that gold can be used to do things nothing else can be used for.

If there ever was a meltdown in the gold price and fire sales were going on, I would not like to be a gold certificate holder telling my bank to sell because maybe the bank was never owning the gold in the first place. In bitcoin fire sales could happen, but at least I don't just own some promise printed on a paper or some numbers on a screen suggesting what I "own", but I can act in an instant and make my own decisions while not having to trust that a third party lived up to their promises.

There are always going to be various kinds of shitcoins, and sometimes good people will get sucked into losing their money through such scams, and they sometimes might even make money and get deluded into thinking that the shitcoins are the real thing blah blah blah... so there are going to aways be differings of opinion about value and where to invest value, time and energies... and sometimes the less valuable assets will win in short-term timelines. .. .. and sure even with bitcoin, it is not guaranteed to concur, even though it seems several multiples, magnitudes, even 1,000x greater than any possible current competitors.

Yes and there will be people saying that they knew ETH would beat BTC now in the short run, but the truth is that ETH  was once very close to BTC and BTC dominance was down to around 30% and ETh was almost equal. Short run analysis makes no sense as it is for those who tend to bend the truth to justify some of their unjustified decisions. The shitcoin thing you talked about is the best example. A story that never gets old when in 2017 everyone thought they are pro traders. Cheesy But all of those who didn't sell got stuck with garbage and zero dollars in the bank account. Hats off to those who sold all their shit coins at the peak and bought as much BTC as they could. That was a masterful move, but I suppose only a very small minority did exactly that.
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That's a fact that happened because even though many countries have considered the adoption of Bitcoin as a strategic step, it does not mean they are throwing gold.
Bitcoin is quite speculative compared to gold, but in terms of durability is not much different and we can see when a recession occurs and Bitcoin is still standing so strong.
This is talking about the state and I don't think it's funds that are a problem, but rather how the approach can be done based on the right study.

See how the country has done it and may be a reference for other countries because gold and Bitcoin are a hedge despite different speculative speaking.

If we refer to the country for these two things (Gold and Bitcoin) of course we have to see the interest of each citizen who chooses both of these things because for now the gold market cap is still quite high which means that there are still quite a lot of gold enthusiasts even though among the many gold enthusiasts they also really like Bitcoin so it is possible for them to have both at once. And we also need to know that the store of value for the two assets is still very different so that this difference is what still makes both of them quite attractive to be owned by everyone.

I also do not hate gold even though I really like Bitcoin, but for the future I still focus more on Bitcoin than gold even though gold can still be relied on for hedging money. But for the profit and also being a hedge, it is in Bitcoin so that for now almost all countries have seen and learned about Bitcoin even though they have not immediately made a decision to adopt it as a whole.

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Hopefully, any banks investing into bitcoin are able to recognize the difference between bitcoin and crypto, and so in that sense, any of them that have any clues would be ONLY investing into bitcoin - not shitcoins and/or crypto.  Sure, some of them might not know the difference between bitcoin and crypto. .and they might be distracted into thinking that various shitcoins are valuable.
I don't think any institution or even the central bank will officially make an announcement about those starting to accumulate bitcoin. Because they will only make an announcement when they are almost finished with their bitcoin accumulation. I think the large companies that we currently know are continuously accumulating bitcoin are examples of those who already understand the difference between bitcoin and crypto itself. I'm not talking about Microstrategy, because this one is out of the question because they have explored bitcoin very well. But about giant world companies that are currently publicly continuing to accumulate bitcoins such as Blackrock and others. And strangely many people ignore their movements. even though it is already a sign that Bitcoin will be very valuable in the long term. So those who are in a hurry to release it may only be those who have invested without knowing how important bitcoin itself will be in the global economic cycle one day in the digital era. About Gold I prefer to call it stable or a store of value. Because in my country the price of 1 ram from the past until now is still the same, namely 2 grams of gold to 2.5 grams of gold. And that hasn't changed. People think the price of gold will rise. even though the value of their currency is decreasing. But I think the increase in the value of bitcoin has been proven. Yes, I understand the fluctuations. But it is normal that in all assets there will always be fluctuations.

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Even if that's true I can understand, not much utility for gold meanwhile BTC is the hottest high performing asset of now.

Always remember gold supply is not finite, like it or not there are so many ways for gold to lose its value in the future with advancement of technology, it only need one asteroid with gold content that's mineable + sufficient space mining tech and gold value will plummet and honestly
we're not really far from that. Some people might call me lunatic for saying this.

The question is when we can create technology good enough and cheap enough to be able to mine gold outside of Earth. According to some reports, there is a lot of gold outside of Earth and scientists have determined that gold exists in abundance on metallic planets like 16 Psyche. But there are also reports that it would cost billions of dollars to mine the gold there, which would only make gold more expensive, not cheaper as you might expect.

You're not crazy to think so, but you're not the first. This hypothesis has been circulated by bitcoin investors for years now but interestingly, nothing has changed, so far. On the contrary, the demand for gold is increasing and causing the price of gold to increase as well. Gold has increased from 11 trillion to 22 trillion in just 4 years from 2021 to 2025, while bitcoin has only increased from 1 trillion to 2 trillion in the same period.

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I don't think this is true, knowing that gold is still reserved for the countries that have it. It is a great hedge towards preserving value with your money. I think they are just increasing their holdings in crypto and not letting gold go away.

After so many years of gold, I don't think letting go is easy.

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Hopefully, any banks investing into bitcoin are able to recognize the difference between bitcoin and crypto, and so in that sense, any of them that have any clues would be ONLY investing into bitcoin - not shitcoins and/or crypto.  Sure, some of them might not know the difference between bitcoin and crypto. .and they might be distracted into thinking that various shitcoins are valuable.
I don't think any institution or even the central bank will officially make an announcement about those starting to accumulate bitcoin. Because they will only make an announcement when they are almost finished with their bitcoin accumulation. I think the large companies that we currently know are continuously accumulating bitcoin are examples of those who already understand the difference between bitcoin and crypto itself. I'm not talking about Microstrategy, because this one is out of the question because they have explored bitcoin very well. But about giant world companies that are currently publicly continuing to accumulate bitcoins such as Blackrock and others. And strangely many people ignore their movements. even though it is already a sign that Bitcoin will be very valuable in the long term. So those who are in a hurry to release it may only be those who have invested without knowing how important bitcoin itself will be in the global economic cycle one day in the digital era. About Gold I prefer to call it stable or a store of value. Because in my country the price of 1 ram from the past until now is still the same, namely 2 grams of gold to 2.5 grams of gold. And that hasn't changed. People think the price of gold will rise. even though the value of their currency is decreasing. But I think the increase in the value of bitcoin has been proven. Yes, I understand the fluctuations. But it is normal that in all assets there will always be fluctuations.

Your example of MSTR is that they have to disclose because they are a public company.   I do think that they disclose more than they have to disclose, yet since they had gotten into bitcoin, they seemed to have had errored on the side of overly disclosing their various bitcoin-related activities. 

Banks and/or private institutions may not be obligated to disclose, and their obligations to disclose may well depend on the jurisdiction that they are in.

You're not crazy to think so, but you're not the first. This hypothesis has been circulated by bitcoin investors for years now but interestingly, nothing has changed, so far. On the contrary, the demand for gold is increasing and causing the price of gold to increase as well. Gold has increased from 11 trillion to 22 trillion in just 4 years from 2021 to 2025, while bitcoin has only increased from 1 trillion to 2 trillion in the same period.

You are both being selective in your time period, if you are choosing bitcoin's 2021 top for your starting point, and even with your example, the each doubled in market cap.

You probably would be better off to try to be more realistic with yourself and to actually measure bitcoin against gold to the extent that you might want to give a more accurate presentation of the situation.

Here is what gold to bitcoin looks like in the past 15 years. 

https://www.longtermtrends.net/bitcoin-vs-gold/

Sure there is a wee bit of a blip in the last few months, but the trajectory is of bitcoin's value as compared with gold is up and ongoingly up, even if you are trying to suggest by using absolute numbers that bitcoin is not going to catchup and pass gold.. which you are likely living in a fantasy if you want o make that kind of an argument

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This makes absolutely no sense. Why would banks give up their gold to buy Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies? They could simply buy cryptocurrencies with their cash without compromising their gold...

I remember a senator had an idea for the United States to sell part of its gold reserves to buy Bitcoin, but the proposal was rejected. I don't think banks or governments would give up their precious gold for cryptocurrencies. If they were to buy Bitcoin, it would make more sense for them to give up their inflated fiat currency, not their precious gold.

You can proclaim that it makes no sense to sell gold and buy bitcoin, yet both will happen.  You likely do not understand bitcoin if you are thinking that gold is as valuable as bitcoin in terms of its various monetary properties. Does it need to be repeated?  Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility, ability to privately hold without as many costs and other monetary properties.

Banks, financial institutions, other institutions, governments and individuals will buy bitcoin and they will sell gold. It is already happening and will continue to happen, and sure it might not happen exactly in the order that you might expect and the action of buying bitcoin and/or selling gold is not always going to be clear, including the existence of paper gold/bitcoin and the existence of actual gold/bitcoin might sometimes cause confusion between the actual product and the various kinds of derivatives (and whether the derivatives are backed up).  
First, I would like to thank you for this detailed explanation and comprehensive comparison between gold and Bitcoin. I also share your vision for the future of Bitcoin, which is better than gold in this digital age we live in, for the reasons you mentioned, such as Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility andability to privately hold without high costsetc...
Oh, you've easily been brainwashed with all those unfounded points that only exist in their thoughts, but not in reality, at least most of them. One can enjoy both Gold and Bitcoin when they compare less and are not biased about them, but maximize the opportunities the two can offer. As a neutral investor and trader, Gold has blessed me, and the same is true for Bitcoin. So I don't follow all those bullshits of maxis, I have my mind and the results are right in front of me. "If you talk about pros, Gold and Bitcoin have it. If you talk about cons, the two have it." What's the headache? Just find your way to benefit from the two. Long Live Gold...Long Live Bitcoin!

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Oh, you've easily been brainwashed with all those unfounded points that only exist in their thoughts, but not in reality, at least most of them. One can enjoy both Gold and Bitcoin when they compare less and are not biased about them, but maximize the opportunities the two can offer. As a neutral investor and trader, Gold has blessed me, and the same is true for Bitcoin. So I don't follow all those bullshits of maxis, I have my mind and the results are right in front of me. "If you talk about pros, Gold and Bitcoin have it. If you talk about cons, the two have it." What's the headache? Just find your way to benefit from the two. Long Live Gold...Long Live Bitcoin!
No, my brain has never been washed, I still believe in bitcoin and gold, both of them are the best, but since we are in the digital age, I think that bitcoin outperforms gold in many characteristics, but this does not mean that I will easily abandon gold.

For example, bitcoin can be very easily transferred across the border and the large quantities you want, while transporting gold across the border is very difficult and it is almost impossible to use it to pay across the border, which of them will be preferred in this case?

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As you said it is a good reserve and has been and I think that many countries are still holding on to their gold reserves. Buying bitcoin does not mean they will be totally replacing gold. Maybe they are just focusing on increasing their bitcoin reserve since they probably already have more of gold. Bitcoin seems to be a lot more volatile than gold which is riskier but also serves more opportunities for bigger profit so that might be why they are focusing on bitcoin more. But if you have enough funds, why not invest in both?
That's a fact that happened because even though many countries have considered the adoption of Bitcoin as a strategic step, it does not mean they are throwing gold.
Bitcoin is quite speculative compared to gold, but in terms of durability is not much different and we can see when a recession occurs and Bitcoin is still standing so strong.
This is talking about the state and I don't think it's funds that are a problem, but rather how the approach can be done based on the right study.

See how the country has done it and may be a reference for other countries because gold and Bitcoin are a hedge despite different speculative speaking.
Yeah, mine for example has that "lets not buy bitcoin, but if we seize from anyone, lets not sell it" approach, they are not selling gold to buy bitcoin, they are not even buying bitcoin, they are just seizing it from criminals, and not selling it and holding it at treasury, that way, they keep growing their bitcoin amount, and it becomes a defacto strategic reserve. If we keep doing that then we are going to end up being alright, won't face that many troubles at all.

If we can move this further, to the point of buying some bitcoin every year with some money they get from taxes, that would be seen wrong because people would rather not pay taxes, so that means this would be just added taxes and nothing big at all, it would be a bit troublesome.

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May 10, 2025, 08:55:59 PM
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First, I would like to thank you for this detailed explanation and comprehensive comparison between gold and Bitcoin. I also share your vision for the future of Bitcoin, which is better than gold in this digital age we live in, for the reasons you mentioned, such as Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility andability to privately hold without high costsetc...
Oh, you've easily been brainwashed with all those unfounded points that only exist in their thoughts, but not in reality, at least most of them. One can enjoy both Gold and Bitcoin when they compare less and are not biased about them, but maximize the opportunities the two can offer. As a neutral investor and trader, Gold has blessed me, and the same is true for Bitcoin.

You are not a neutral investor merely because you have figured out a way to stay invested in gold in spite of bitcoin being better money.   Sure, you can make your choices, and hopefully they make sense for your situation, even though most people likely don't need to have any more than 10% the size of their bitcoin allocation into gold, and probably 10% is even too high for most people... when in fact, there is no need for gold when bitcoin is better money than it.. right around 1,000x and bitcoin is slowly (perhaps not so slowly?) taking gold's market share and its raison d' être.

So I don't follow all those bullshits of maxis,

You have to figure out your own balances and allocations and hopefully it works for you and you don't end up having fun being more poor than you wished that you were based on your overallocations to gold (and shitcoins) as compared with bitcoin.

I have my mind and the results are right in front of me. "If you talk about pros, Gold and Bitcoin have it. If you talk about cons, the two have it." What's the headache? Just find your way to benefit from the two. Long Live Gold...Long Live Bitcoin!

Well if you look at the qualities that both yhiaali3 and I listed ("Scarcity, verifiability, transportability, divisibility andability to privately hold without high costsetc"), bitcoin beats gold, perhaps bitcoin beating gold by 1,000x or more in each of those money qualities (or at least after combining them).  Sure you can look at other possible qualities of each if you like, but you may well be ignoring the more obvious aspects of what makes money valuable in your attempts to be smarter than everyone else.

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No, my brain has never been washed, I still believe in bitcoin and gold, both of them are the best, but since we are in the digital age, I think that bitcoin outperforms gold in many characteristics, but this does not mean that I will easily abandon gold.

When it comes to money both bitcoin and gold cannot be the best.  There is a thing called Gresham's law which the good money drives out the bad.  Hopefully, for your own good you are careful not to overallocate to gold and underallocate to bitcoin based on your trying to believe that each of them are similar in their levels of "bestness."

The same is true for institutions (banks or otherwise) and governments playing the same games in regards to their beliefs that gold is "equally" good or even erroneously believing (presuming or concluding) gold to be superior to bitcoin.

As you said it is a good reserve and has been and I think that many countries are still holding on to their gold reserves. Buying bitcoin does not mean they will be totally replacing gold. Maybe they are just focusing on increasing their bitcoin reserve since they probably already have more of gold. Bitcoin seems to be a lot more volatile than gold which is riskier but also serves more opportunities for bigger profit so that might be why they are focusing on bitcoin more. But if you have enough funds, why not invest in both?
That's a fact that happened because even though many countries have considered the adoption of Bitcoin as a strategic step, it does not mean they are throwing gold.
Bitcoin is quite speculative compared to gold, but in terms of durability is not much different and we can see when a recession occurs and Bitcoin is still standing so strong.
This is talking about the state and I don't think it's funds that are a problem, but rather how the approach can be done based on the right study.

See how the country has done it and may be a reference for other countries because gold and Bitcoin are a hedge despite different speculative speaking.
Yeah, mine for example has that "lets not buy bitcoin, but if we seize from anyone, lets not sell it" approach, they are not selling gold to buy bitcoin, they are not even buying bitcoin, they are just seizing it from criminals, and not selling it and holding it at treasury, that way, they keep growing their bitcoin amount, and it becomes a defacto strategic reserve. If we keep doing that then we are going to end up being alright, won't face that many troubles at all.

If we can move this further, to the point of buying some bitcoin every year with some money they get from taxes, that would be seen wrong because people would rather not pay taxes, so that means this would be just added taxes and nothing big at all, it would be a bit troublesome.

Sure of course some of the governments and the financial institutions (just like individuals) are starting out with their bitcoin journey slowly and more and more likely going to be realizing that they would have had been better off to have had employed a more proactive rather than reactive strategy when it comes to bitcoin accumulation and/or maintenance.

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