The Bitcoin–Gold Relationship Is Reaching a New Extreme

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The Bitcoin-gold relationship just hit a new extreme. Their 90-day rolling correlation climbed to its highest level since 2020, according to Bitwise’s Weekly CIO Memo, published September 2, 2026. 

That’s the same territory last seen during the Covid stimulus era.

What Changed So Fast

The shift came during a rough stretch for bonds. Long-dated Treasury yields moved sharply higher. 

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responded by expanding the government’s long-dated bond buybacks. 

Bitcoin rose 22.4% the following week. That’s its strongest weekly gain since March 2024. 

Gold climbed about 5% over the same stretch. Stocks fell. Both hard assets moved together while equities went the other way. 

Techgaged tracked a related setup back in February, when Bitcoin’s ratio against gold sat near 2022 bear market levels, with gold sharply outperforming at the time.

The Bigger Rotation Story

Bitcoin’s correlation with the Nasdaq-100 dropped to a one-year low over the same period. 

That weakens the case that Bitcoin simply trades as a tech stock proxy. Bitcoin also stayed negatively correlated with the US Dollar Index. 

A weaker dollar has coincided with stronger Bitcoin and gold prices. Bitwise’s André Dragosch put it directly. 

He said Bitcoin has started looking like an amplified version of gold when macro forces dominate the market.

Where the Chart Sits 

The BTC/Gold ratio on TradingView traded at 18.10 as of 06:55 UTC on September 4, 2026, down 0.67% for the week. 

The weekly MACD line reads 0.53683 against a signal line of -0.36944, with the histogram building green after a long stretch of red. 

The weekly Parabolic SAR has flipped below price, a signal that typically favors continued strength in Bitcoin’s ratio against gold going forward. 

That flip lines up with a shift Techgaged flagged in early March, when Robert Kiyosaki argued Bitcoin would follow gold’s rally after a sharp $128 single-day gold move.

A Reason for Caution

Not every analyst is convinced this holds. Glassnode noted that Bitcoin’s 30-day correlation with the S&P 500 also fell toward zero during the August rally. 

Sudden decorrelations during bond selloffs have historically been short-lived. They’ve marked local exhaustion more often than a lasting regime shift. 

Whether this correlation spike becomes a durable structural change or fades once bond markets settle down likely depends on what happens at the Fed’s September 16 rate decision, the next real test for this whole macro setup.

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