Bitcoin vs. Gold: Does October’s near zero correlation shatter ‘digital gold’ myth?Bitcoin and gold have told two different stories so far in October, and neither matched what traders expected. For most of October, Bitcoin and gold looked like they were living in different markets. Gold climbed steadily, adding about 10% over the last month, while Bitcoin slipped roughly 6%. That divergence is interesting on its own, but the timing matters even more, because the story people think they saw isn’t the one that actually happened.