Cryptocurrency technology is considered as smart technology that would transform our way of doing business in the near future. Its unique features are said to be far superior than our existing business technology which mainly based on cash and credit, especially in time, security and cost. Nevertheless, its entrance into the business arena has also turns our existing systems of financial reporting and taxing upside down as both systems were moulded, formulated and evolved just to suit the systems of cash and credit. Therefore, the financial regulators and inland revenue boards should come out with a new system that can properly and fairly adapt to the technology of cryptocurrency, in order to secure the imbalances between financial application and its law and order.

This study reports the findings from an extensive literature review on the factors that influence the prices of gold and the connections/interrelationships among global gold markets. Among other things, evidence observed from the literature review suggests that whilst there are seven main markets for gold across the world now, the prices of gold in the US and other markets do not have much impact on the prices of gold in the UK. The evidence also suggests that the impacts of the other factors like the exchange rate of the US dollar, inflation rate, interest rate, etc., on the price of gold are hard to quantify and use in a pricing model. Further, as more researches being published regarding gold factors, the newly discovered factors become intertwined with the factors that were discovered earlier by previous researches, hence complicates the explanation of gold factors.