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Is Bitcoin the 'Digit Gold'——A Potential Safe-haven Asset?

Shupeng Guan * 1 , Han Jiang 2 , Muyang Zhou 3 , Jianuo Liu 4
1 School of Mathamatics,University of Birmingham,B15 2TT,United Kingdom
2 Wuhan Britain-China School,430030, China
3 Information School, University of Washington, 98195, United States
4 Material Science&Engineering, Nanyang Technology University,639798,Singapore

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences, Vol. 4, 392-401
Published 21 March 2023. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by EWA Publishing
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Citation Shupeng Guan, Han Jiang, Muyang Zhou, Jianuo Liu. Is Bitcoin the 'Digit Gold'——A Potential Safe-haven Asset?. AEMPS (2023) Vol. 4: 392-401. DOI: 10.54254/2754-1169/4/2022910.

Abstract

In this paper, we examine whether bitcoin has the potential to become safe-haven asset that can rival gold in the future. We observed, compared and analyzed and the performance of bitcoin and gold in face of a falling market and inflation pressure. We can see if investors can rely on bitcoin to reduce risk exposure significantly through empirical tests. At the end of our research, we found that bitcoin did not perform as well as gold did when faced with market crash and inflation. Therefore, we conclude that bitcoin does not yet show the potential to possess risk-proof merits as gold, the traditional high-quality hedge asset. Gold would probably remain the preferred hedge asset against cryptocurrency for now.

Keywords

Sharpe ratio, Bitcoin, portfolio, gold

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development (ICEMGD 2022), Part Ⅱ
ISBN (Print)
978-1-915371-17-1
ISBN (Online)
978-1-915371-18-8
Published Date
21 March 2023
Series
Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
ISSN (Print)
2754-1169
ISSN (Online)
2754-1177
DOI
10.54254/2754-1169/4/2022910
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
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