{"id":456948,"date":"2021-02-17T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=456948"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:13:24","slug":"bitcoin-explodes-towards-52000-as-gold-forms-bearish-death-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/bitcoin-explodes-towards-52000-as-gold-forms-bearish-death-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Explodes Towards $52,000 as Gold Forms Bearish Death Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin achieved yet another record high in a price rally that has already seen it surging by more than 1,100 percent from its March lows last year. Incidentally, gold, which many consider Bitcoin’s top safe-haven rival, painted a death cross pattern on its daily chart.<\/p>\n

A recent run-up in the long-dated Treasury yields<\/a>, prompted by a sell-off in the US bond markets following investors’ gravitation towards riskier assets, pressured the spot gold prices lower. The precious metal dropped by almost 9 percent from its year-to-date high of $1,959 an ounce.<\/p>\n

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Gold forms 50-200 MA Golden cross on its daily chart. Source: XAUUSD on TradingView.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Gold forms 50-200 MA Golden cross on its daily chart. Source: XAUUSD on TradingView.com<\/a><\/pre>\n

Meanwhile…<\/h2>\n

…all the three Wall Street indexes notched their historic highs. Bitcoin, which tends to behave as a safe-haven amid market uncertainties, joined the risk-on mood after Tesla, Mastercard and BNY showed support in its favor. In particular, Tesla revealed that it now holds $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin<\/a> units and plans to use cryptocurrency as a payment mode for its services and products.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, mainstream investors dumped gold to seek positions in other commodities<\/a>. BlackRock, the world\u2019s largest asset manager, revealed in its SEC filings that it sold 2.7 million SPDR Gold Shares and reallocated the proceeds to purchase 1.18 million shares of iShares Silver Trust (SLV).<\/p>\n

In January, BlackRock granted two of its funds the ability to invest in bitcoin futures.<\/p>\n

Holger Zsch\u00e4pitz, senior editor of finance at Germany daily Die Welt, noted the possibility of investors dumping their gold positions to seek returns in the Bitcoin market.<\/p>\n

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#Bitcoin<\/a> is eating Gold in one chart! Gold\/Bitcoin ratio hit fresh All-Time low. pic.twitter.com\/faWhyzYkQD<\/a><\/p>\n

— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n