Die schlechteste Woche für Gold seit 43 Jahren hat gerade den überzeugendsten Fall für Bitcoin vorgebracht

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Gold is trading at $4,491 this week, down 10.52% – its worst weekly performance since 1982 -despite a backdrop that would historically have driven the precious metal sharply higher. A war is ongoing in the Middle East, oil refineries are under attack, three US warships are deployed, and inflation is rising.

In every prior cycle where these conditions converged, gold has served as the primary safe haven. This time, it has not.

Why Gold Crashed When It Shouldn’t Have

According to the analysis page Bull Theory, three simultaneous mechanical forces drove the selloff rather than any change in gold’s underlying fundamentals. The US dollar surged on safe haven flows, making gold more expensive for buyers outside the United States. Commodity funds sold gold positions to cover losses from oil margin calls generated by the volatile energy market. And the CME raised gold margin requirements, forcing leveraged positions into liquidation.

The result was a paper market flush that had little to do with gold’s actual value proposition and everything to do with the infrastructure that surrounds it.

Bull Theory drew a direct historical parallel: the last time gold posted a comparable weekly loss was 1982, when the Federal Reserve was hiking rates to 20% to crush inflation – conditions that were fundamentally bearish for gold.

Within 12 months of that 1982 crash, gold had rallied 50%.

Bitcoin’s Divergence Is Becoming Difficult to Ignore

While gold suffered its worst week in over four decades, Bitcoin closed the same period down just 0.14%, currently trading at $70,563.

Coinbureau CEO Nic highlighted the contrast on X, noting that Bitcoin has outperformed gold for three consecutive weeks, that the asset is sitting at a bullish MACD crossover that has preceded multiple significant rallies historically, and that the RSI has recovered from oversold levels, signalling a return of upside momentum.

Saylor’s Thesis Might Be Playing Out

Michael Saylor added his view on Friday: “Bitcoin’s a solution to everyone’s problem. Go buy the Bitcoin and wait because hundreds of trillions of dollars of capital from all around the world are going to flow into cyberspace to the Bitcoin network.”
Crypto analyst SightBringer expanded on that argument, writing that Bitcoin represents the destination for capital that is trying to escape institutions compromised by “politics, dilution, leverage, seizure risk, or counterparty fragility” – the very forces that drove this week’s gold liquidation.

The week’s events did not disprove gold’s long-term case. What they demonstrated, however, is that gold’s digital infrastructure remains exposed to the same systemic pressures it is supposed to hedge against, while Bitcoin’s position outside that infrastructure continues to look structurally different.
source: https://www.tradingview.com/news/coinpedia:983e4c721094b:0-the-worst-week-for-gold-in-43-years-just-made-the-strongest-case-for-bitcoin/