The Interrelationship Between Gold And Bitcoin

In recent times with the drop in Bitcoin prices, researchers have observed a shift in the investment to Gold. The opposite was observed at the end of last year when a CNBC report suggested that investors were dumping their gold to buy bitcoins in the US.
Analysts are now studying if there is a relationship between the prices of gold and Bitcoin. While they do, let us note some of the observations made of late, and analyze for ourselves:
There is an inverse relationship between gold and Bitcoin
Gold ETF also saw an almost 15% drop in comparison to September 2017 in the US. As previously mentioned, it is said that the investors sold gold worth millions to invest in digital assets. Bitcoin's loss is Gold's gain
The Week of 15th December 2017

Bitcoin futures contracts were launched in the same week when it hit its all-time high. If you were to add all the cryptocurrencies in the market, their value in terms of market cap was equivalent to 23% of the gold traded fund that wee.
Bitcoin crashed last week

This shows how investors having doubts with the volatality of the cryptocurrency are moving towards the traditional safe haven of the precious metal that is much more stable.
Gold has been a traditional favourite in physical form as well as digital. It could go both ways

If there is indeed a serious inverse relationship between gold and bitcoin, the rising in gold investments could bring an end to the digital asset that everyone is skeptical about.
Or could this be a chance to bet on bitcoin and watch it rise?
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