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RE: Gold or Bitcoin as the currency of safe haven?

in #bitcoin7 years ago

Thanks for the post. It's not all black and white between gold and bitcoin. You have to consider silver as well.

Gold's "physical storage" is not a negative, holding a safe haven is mainly a positive.

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I understand what you're saying and recognise the importance of silver too. Silver can be likened to Litecoin I guess in the digital world.

Yep, I basically mean that when having a situation where AU truly acts as a safe haven, so does silver too. We still haven't seen an economic crisis like 2008 with era of cryptocurrencies. When that arrives, cryptos will be tested in a real crisis environment. The behavior can differ or equal that of precious metals.

Not a disagreement, just discussing! ;-)

@arpepa I welcome your comments as I'm not expert in this, but you have raised an interesting point where Cryptos have yet to be tested in a crisis. It's a day we all hope never arrives, but time will tell.

I'm not an expert either. However, your opening was important and I've been into these questions a lot . There are different kind of situations to have safe havens:

  • "normal everyday life"
  • world of (economic) uncertainty (to which you were referring most?)
  • pre-crisis situation (economic or else)
  • full-blown panic (major stock crash? ; to which I was referring earlier)
  • post-crisis environment

It strongly seems that Cryptos can work as safe havens at least for world of uncertainty. And yes, hopefully anything else won't be needed to test.

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