{"id":48702,"date":"2025-09-21T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=48702"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:31:42","slug":"gold-vs-bitcoin-performance-through-the-lens-of-money-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=48702","title":{"rendered":"Gold vs Bitcoin: Performance Through the Lens of Money Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Gold has been one of the strongest performing assets in 2025, rising 38% year to date, outpacing bitcoin23% advance. It&#8217;s no secret, though, that bitcoin has done wildly better than gold (and pretty much everything else) over its short lifespan. <\/p>\n<p>A check of the two popular inflation-resistant assets against a broad measure of U.S. money supply (known as M2) yields further insight about their performances.<\/p>\n<p>Adjusted for M2 growth, gold \u2014 despite its recent strong run \u2014 remains below its 2011 peak and roughly the same level as it was in 1975. The all-time high for gold against M2 occurred in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin tells a different story. Each bull cycle has seen BTC hit a record versus M2, including last month when bitcoin touched both an absolute all-time high as well as a new high relative to money supply.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/b66f890a543b4b5968714f4fb70196308968358a-3034x1563.png?auto=format\" alt=\"Bitcoin relative to M2 money supply\" title=\"Bitcoin relative to M2 money supply\"><\/p>\n<p>This contrast could highlight the different roles of the two assets. Gold continues to serve as a long-standing hedge and a stabilizer in portfolios, while bitcoin\u2019s behavior shows how new forms of money can respond differently to an era of rapid monetary expansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold has been one of the strongest performing assets in 2025, rising 38% year to date, outpacing bitcoin23% advance. It&#8217;s no secret, though, that bitcoin has done wildly better than gold (and pretty much everything else) over its short lifespan. A check of the two popular inflation-resistant assets against a broad measure of U.S. money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-48702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}