Bitcoin Stirs as Gold Takes a Coffee Break ☕-Who Wins This Tug-of-War?

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What to know:

  • The golden beast has been tramping higher these last few weeks, perhaps stepping on Bitcoin’s toes in the process.
  • Bitcoin’s found a little spark of life Wednesday, just as gold took a rare and ungraceful stumble.
  • In the long haul, these two might be more like dance partners than rivals, moving somehow to the same tune.

Seems like the world’s wallet is only so deep these days – can’t have the golden bull and the digital buck both tearing up the prairie at once.

Gold’s been hitting new peaks like a stubborn old prospector, day after day. Meanwhile, Bitcoin-bless its pixelated heart-has all the factors in its corner: easy money, shiny ETFs, big names jumping on board. Yet it still can’t seem to break free from its own dust cloud.

All signs point to Bitcoin having to wait in the wings, licking its wounds, until the world takes its eye off the glittering metal.

This Wednesday, gold finally caught a cold at 1.5% down to $3,759 an ounce-just enough for Bitcoin to sneak a grin and climb a modest 1.7% up to some dizzying $113,7000 (because why not dream big?).

Longer-term chart tells a different story

Now, if you squint and look past the day-to-day noise, it’s plain as a dusty road: these two – gold and Bitcoin – are cut from the same stubborn cloth. Both stand guard over your wealth from the marauding hoards of government spending and inflation, each in their own way.

Sure enough, they seem to move like an old married couple – arguing some days, marching together over the long haul. Gold’s up a solid 42% this year, leaving Bitcoin in its dusty tracks at 22%. But don’t count Bitcoin out; since the start of 2024, gold has climbed 82%, while Bitcoin managed to rocket ahead a jaw-dropping 155%.

Go further back to 2023, and gold’s more than doubled, while Bitcoin has gone through a metamorphosis, rising sixfold – though it’s worth noting, that climb started from crypto’s wintery low, a place colder than a Steinbeck winter night.

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2025-09-24 22:52