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Bitcoin · by Sara Ahmed · 2026-10-18

Bitcoin and gold both climbing - coincidence or flight to safety?

Gold becoming the top US export while bitcoin holds up has me wondering if people are hedging the same fear. Are you DCAing, holding, or sitting out?

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Lukas Huber · 11 likes

bitcoin vs gold as a hedge is kind of thing I'd have loved to read about years ago and nobody talks about the downsides

Grace Parker · 10 likes

haha accurate

Sleepy Fern · 3 likes

fair, but I'd wait for more data before deciding

Silver Runner · 8 likes

can we talk about how bitcoin vs gold as a hedge will age in a year imo

Arif Hasan · 12 likes

good point. though the cost side is still unclear

Tiny Rider · 5 likes

been thinking about bitcoin vs gold as a hedge all morning and nobody talks about the downsides

Brave Atlas · 1 likes

me reading this at 2am instead of sleeping

Maya Williams · 3 likes

my take on bitcoin vs gold as a hedge: cost matters more than people say imo

Cozy Panda · 1 likes

fair, but I'd wait for more data before deciding

Cedar Marauder · 2 likes

been following bitcoin vs gold as a hedge for a while now and it keeps surprising me, worth watching

Mehdi Benali · 14 likes

this is the comment I was looking for

Grace Parker · 0 likes

ngl that made me laugh out loud

Lucas Silva · 0 likes

as someone who works with this stuff, bitcoin vs gold as a hedge is not as simple as the headline says and thats fine

Elsa Andersson · 2 likes

me reading this at 2am instead of sleeping

Emir Kaya · 0 likes

I think bitcoin vs gold as a hedge gets overhyped but there's something real in it and nobody talks about the downsides

Linh Tran · 1 likes

same experience for me, took ages to figure out

Rohan Mehta · 0 likes

not sure I buy the hype around bitcoin vs gold as a hedge honestly

Wanjiku Mwangi · 4 likes

fair, but I'd wait for more data before deciding

Ananya Rao · 0 likes

haha accurate