{"id":78269,"date":"2021-05-19T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78269"},"modified":"2021-05-18T23:47:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T03:47:55","slug":"cryptocurrencies-are-close-to-reaching-a-big-milestone-versus-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2021\/cryptocurrencies-are-close-to-reaching-a-big-milestone-versus-gold.html","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrencies are close to reaching a big milestone versus gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Crypto bulls have long championed bitcoin as a modern-day replacement for gold, and by one measure, the new market is already close to surpassing bullion in that respect. The total value of the cryptocurrency market now stands above $2 trillion, putting it on nearly equal footing with the amount of gold held for private investment purposes, according to a new report from Bernstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/18\/cryptocurrencies-are-close-to-reaching-a-big-milestone-versus-gold-by-one-wall-street-firms-count.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Crypto bulls have long championed bitcoin as a modern-day replacement for gold, and by one measure, the new market is already close to surpassing bullion in that respect. The total value of the cryptocurrency market now stands above $2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78270,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78269\/revisions\/78270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}