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Investors risk missing out on the gold rush for millennials, JPMorgan says

Older investors still look to gold as an alternative currency, whereas younger investors prefer bitcoin

Investors risk missing out on the gold rush for millennials, JPMorgan says
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Cryptocurrency bitcoin could start to compete with gold as an alternative currency as millennials start to age, according to a note from JPMorgan analysts.

Payment company Paypal’s decision last week to allow customers to buy and sell bitcoin using their Paypal accounts is “another big step towards corporate support for bitcoin”, the client note from JPMorgan managing director for global market strategy Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said.

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