While Bitcoin gets a lot of attention, it hasn’t played the safe-haven role many expected. In my view, there are a few reasons why.
First, Bitcoin lacks privacy. Transactions can be monitored and potentially controlled, which is why central banks aren’t looking to hold it.
Second, it also has a high correlation with tech stocks. When investors get squeezed in other areas of their portfolio, they sell their Bitcoin to cover it.
Third, it’s a relatively small and controllable market, whereas gold stands alone. There is only one gold.
Ultimately, gold is more widely held, deeply established, and still plays a central role in the global system.
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@PeterSchiff@theswansjr Gold had no industrial use before the 19th century. Its value came purely from monetary properties. Was gold in a thousands-of-years-long bubble?
TradFi bros: Bitcoin = worthless tulip mania. Gold = holy grail.
Even though +90% of gold’s price is just people betting it’ll hold value (industrial use is tiny).
Both are great money candidates driven by scarcity + belief. Bitcoin’s better at portability, divisibility, no middlemen, etc.
Imagine 5,000 years ago calling gold a bubble…
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People confuse phase 1 behavior with final form utility.
Yes — BTC has traded like high-beta tech during the monetization era.
So did gold in the 1970s before it became global collateral.
The real hedge emerges after an asset becomes the outside-money base layer.
BTC is still early in that transition.
But every year more balance sheets, lenders, and treasuries treat it as collateral — not a trade.
Volatility is the birth pain of a new monetary rail.
The hedge shows up in phase 2.