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Gold, Silver and Digital Assets

Gold, silver and bitcoin are the assets most often measured against the dollar. These guides explain what drives their prices, how much of each exists and where the records stand, using official and exchange data.

ChartGold and Silver Price HistoryEvery year since 1900, in nominal and real dollars.Open the chart

Guides

Guide · 28 Oct 2026Fort Knox Gold: How Much Is There and What It Is WorthThe Treasury publishes an exact figure for the gold at Fort Knox every month. What the report shows, what the gold is worth at the book price and at the market price, and what the annual audit covers.Guide · 28 Oct 2026How Many Bitcoins Are There, and How Many Are Left?The supply of bitcoin follows a schedule written into its code, so the count can be checked against any block explorer. The current figure, the cap, the halvings and the coins that will never move again.Guide · 28 Oct 2026Why Is Gold Going Up? The 2024 to 2026 Rally ExplainedGold more than doubled between January 2024 and January 2026. The buyers behind the move, the role of the dollar and interest rates, and why the price has since given back about a quarter.Guide · 28 Oct 2026Why Is Silver Going Up? Deficits, Solar and the Gold RatioSilver quadrupled between early 2024 and January 2026, then lost more than half. The supply deficits behind the rise, what solar demand is really doing, and what the gold-silver ratio says now.Guide · 28 Oct 2026Gold's All-Time High, Nominal and Inflation-AdjustedThe record, the benchmark behind it, the 1980 peak restated in today's dollars, and the records since 1971 with the falls that followed.Guide · 28 Oct 2026Silver's All-Time High: 1980, 2011 and NowThe January 2026 record in dollars of the day, the 1980 peak that still stands after inflation, what the SEC found about the Hunt brothers, and where silver trades now.Guide · 28 Oct 2026Why Is Gold So Valuable?How much gold exists, why almost none of it is ever used up, why governments still keep it as money, and what the jewellery and industrial figures say about its price.Guide · 28 Oct 2026What Is Bitcoin? A Plain-English Guide for Gold OwnersHow the supply is fixed, how a payment gets confirmed without a bank, what holding it actually means, how much the price moves, and how it compares with gold and with stablecoins.

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ChartGold-Silver RatioHow many ounces of silver one ounce of gold buys, live.ChartPriced in GoldThe Dow, a new house and a barrel of oil, measured in ounces.

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