Why Gold is Rallying and Bitcoin Isn’t
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-29 23:36
For years, Bitcoin has been championed as “digital gold” — with ardent believers arguing it’s far superior to the precious metal. Unfortunately, it seems the market disagrees. Gold’s extraordinary bull run shows no sign of slowing down. It’s surged by 25% over the past month, 66% over the past six months, and is up 200% compared with five years ago. That officially means that it’s outperforming the world’s biggest cryptocurrency by a large margin. By contrast, BTC is down 2.5% from a month ago, and has ...