CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and chairman of SchiffGold, Peter Schiff, has once again provided critique of Bitcoin. The self-proclaimed gold bug used the opportunity presented by today’s downswing in Bitcoin price to argue his favourite yellow metal’s superiority over the digital currency. However, in his critique, Schiff seems to forget one crucial thing –…
To most in the cryptocurrency community, Bitcoin (BTC) is a paradigm-shifting asset with unlimited potential. But to Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most well-respected investors, it is something with little-to-zero intrinsic value, and resembles “rat poison” more than it does shares in his favorite companies: Coca-Cola, Dairy Queen, or GEICO. Since Buffett and his…
The Prime Minister of Malaysia has called for the formation of a new currency backed by gold. Dr Mahathir Mohamad believes that a single sound currency in East Asian would help protect economies from manipulation caused by Forex traders. Mohamad also spoke about the influence of the US and how it was disadvantageous for the…
A New York Post columnist has asked the United States, the European Union, and Chinese authorities to investigate who is behind the price manipulation in the bitcoin market. Finance journalist John Crudele wrote that bitcoin is nothing more than a confidence game – where people denote value to an asset based on faith. It is…
The launch of a crypto-like-currency by social media giant Facebook has been the topic of many discussions in the Bitcoin and digital asset space recently. However, little was known about it outside of the company developing a mysterious blockchain department and rumours about a WhatsApp-based digital coin being launched by the firm. According to a…
Leading crypto asset management firm Grayscale Investments has recently launched a campaign attempting to dissuade investors from gold whilst demonstrating the advantages of digital assets such as Bitcoin. The latest effort depicts Richard Nixon with words to the effect that gold wasn’t good enough for Nixon, so it isn’t a good investment today. The problem…
Kevin O’Leary has stated that Bitcoin is “garbage” , a “digital game”, and ultimately, “worthless”. The Shark Tank investor attacked Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto industry largely based on the current volatility of digital assets. The successful entrepreneur states that because he was unable to buy property using the popular digital asset, it…
Celebrated economist Joseph Stiglitz has recently spoken out against cryptocurrencies. The Nobel Prize winner even went as far as to say that crypto needed to be “shut down”. Evidently, Stiglitz doesn’t fully comprehend just what it would take to “shut down” most cryptocurrencies, let alone Bitcoin. Planning a war against a target with few perceivable…
Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset fund overseen by Barry Silbert, has announced that it will launch an advertising campaign in a few weeks that takes aim squarely a gold investors. The advert compares the futuristic investment vehicle of Bitcoin and other digital currencies with the historic store of value gold. Although the advertisement is for…
I’m sure you’ve heard the popular adage: “great minds think alike.” While this seems true in scientific contexts, in the case of finance, even cryptocurrencies, this is far from the case. Some of the greatest minds in Bitcoin (BTC) analysis recently convened in a Skype room to discuss if the bottom is truly in. Over…