Oh, and the recent termination of CBOE Gemini bitcoin futures (GXBT) is also bullish for gold, since it has removed a major source of shorting at the institutional level. You might recall that when the CBOE started offering bitcoin futures at the beginning of 2018, the immediate effect was a long plunge in the price of BTC. In fact, you could argue that the introduction of bitcoin futures at large exchanges is what killed BTC at that time, since large players could short BTC with ease. They managed to pocket a great deal of profit as they shorted BTC futures and drove it into the ground.
But by Q1 of this year, when they had made as much as they could from shorting BTC futures, volume of futures trading plunged, which lead to Gemini terminating its bitcoin futures; June 19th was the last trading day. Now that this major shorting obstacle has been removed, look at BTC go! The end of Gemini futures isn't the only impetus to BTC lately, but it does help. We can't ignore how BTC started falling when the futures were implemented, and how BTC started flying when the futures were closed. There still are 5x futures contracts available out there, but they're not so hot. There is very little holding BTC back now.