That's interesting--I can't recall exactly what palladium gets used for, but I'm pretty sure it's for industrial purposes much like platinum.  Don't know why it's up so much.  Guess I'll have to do some googling.

Is bitcoin actually considered a commodity?  I never thought of it as one.  It's more like a hybrid of a currency and a stock (though I know it doesn't fit the definition of being a stock).  Interesting to think of it as a "digital commodity" because I don't know how many of those there are.  Anyway, bitcoin was up over 100% for 2019 if I'm not mistaken.  It started off the year at around $3200 and ended it above $7k, right?  That might be nitpickiness, but those numbers could be more exact IMO.

Gas was up that much?  I don't own a car but I do look at the prices when I'm at the local gas station, and they didn't move that noticeably for much of the year.  Interesting.

IEOs actually almost out performed bitcoin last year,it  has great returns though....will see how it does this time around

This is interesting information, so we know that even in 2019 bitcoin has not reached bullish bitcoin, but it still provides a bigger profit than other investments. bitcoin has a high risk but if we can use the volatility well we will get a profit. we can use bitcoin for short-term investments or long-term investments depending on market conditions.

easy to calculate if we will only look about the growth of bitcoin last 2019,from $3000 level last January it climbs to $7000 level in December so this means we are in more than 100% bigger last year.

but that is good to mention here mate,after everything that brings bad issue in the past yet there are some good to happen.

Bitcoin moved from 3500$ to around 13800$ this year and no other commodity moved to 4.5x. Bitcoin is bearish because after reaching 14K, it is constantly on a downtrend to 7200$ now. Also i think people want bitcoin to cross the all time high and till that time, they consider it to be in bearish mode.

This. It's so funny when people call Bitcoin boring and almost 'threaten' to put their money into a different asset class if Bitcoin doesn't quickly do something.

A lot of people have no prior experience with anything related to investing, which explains why they are so ignorant and reckless. Anyone calling Bitcoin boring just because it hasn't gone up 500% in a matter of months is desperately in need of a reality check. Try put your money into stocks, Gold, etc. You'll be wishing to not have invested in any of these assets with such an attitude.

People who want fast gains don't need Bitcoin. There are a wide variety of options available to make your wildest dreams come true, but the reality is that more people end up broke chasing the quick money.

Yes, this is cryptocurrency. profitable but very risky to lose. but to be honest, gold is not appropriate when compared with bitcoin. in my opinion, bitcoin and other crypto will still survive and bitcoin is nearing its peak.

It's not about anything special, This is the thing which we are talking about for a long time, but the main thing is that Bitcoin is not a product, So don't compare Bitcoin with anything else, I hope Bitcoin price will get high more in the coming days than we previously observed, if it doesn't happen then Bitcoin will face a lot of crisis because people have invested in this system a lot only because of Bitcoin, so It means a lot, Bitcoin requires a halving which enhances this platform so long, let's see what will happen in the coming next.

The superiority of Bitcoin's profitability over all other precious metals and commodities can be explained by the fact that the cryptocurrency market is still very young and has a relatively small capitalization. As a result, the volatility of Bitcoin is strongly influenced by news, as well as both positive and negative actions of regulators in different countries.