There are quest for promoters of cryptocurrency projects to concentrate on their adoption and not on the price.
Billionaire investor, Peter Thiel had said that earlier in the year, that even if Bitcoin does not mature as a payment instrument, that he is long into it.
Thiel Peter’s statement then reads:
“I would be long bitcoin, and neutral to skeptical of just about everything else at this point with a few possible exceptions. There will be one online equivalent to gold, and the one you’d bet on would be the biggest,” he said. “I would be long bitcoin, and neutral to skeptical of just about everything else at this point with a few possible exceptions. There will be one online equivalent to gold, and the one you’d bet on would be the biggest.”
Litecoin founder Charlie Lee had in different occasions drummed support for bitcoin by saying that everyone should try and own at least one Bitcoin and later added that Bitcoin is the gold of cryptocurrency.
Going by the level of adoption of the Lightning Network (LN) for Bitcoin payments, one could agree like Bitcoin whales that Bitcoin has some of the attributes of gold irrespective of it’s high volatility since it could increase liquidity, scarcity, portability.
But, a renowned equity analyst in one of the world’s finest equity research firms,” Morningstar Minute, ” Kristofferson Inton believes otherwise, since close to 40% of gold demand comes from its investors.
Inton wrote:
“If cryptocurrency were to displace gold’s investment case, the implications for gold prices would be devastating. 40% of gold demand relates to investment, so a shift in investment from gold to cryptocurrency would be a seismic shock.”
From Inton’s experience in the industry since 2013, he recommended investment in Goldcorp, which is a certain gold stocks in the long term since cryptocurrency could not be guaranteed as a measure of store of value.
Inton concluded by stating that:
“In order to assess the threat, we’ve created a framework to grade any asset class’s viability as a safe haven by focusing on liquidity, functional purpose, scarcity of supply, future demand certainty, and permanence. Through this framework, we conclude that cryptocurrency does not and will not challenge gold as a safe-haven asset class.”
ZyCrypto had Earlier Reported on a comparison research made by longhash which concluded that Bitcoin Mining consumes 20X less Energy than Gold Mining,
Barrick Gold Corporation whose data was used for the research shows their 2017 annual report that it produced 5.3 million oz. of gold at the cost of $4.2 million in the year. With approximately 88 million oz. of gold produced yearly, it is estimated to cost about $70 billion annually to mine gold. This is significantly higher than the annual cost of bitcoin mining but no one considers it.
