In April 2025, institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds were buying Bitcoin, whereas the retail traders were selling it through ETFs and spot markets. In an interview with CNBC, John D’Agostino, the head of strategy at Coinbase Institutional, said that Bitcoin is slowly being treated like gold.
John D’Agostino noted that Bitcoin is rare, fixed in nature, and non-portable across sovereigns as some of the attributes that make it a good hedge against currency inflation and other economic risks.
John D’Agostino said, “Bitcoin is trading on its core characteristics, which again are similar to gold. You’ve got scarcity, immutability, and non-sovereign asset portability. So it’s trading the way people who believe in Bitcoin would like it to trade.”
Governments and financial institutions are gradually turning towards Bitcoin to safeguard their reserves from the effects of inflation and geopolitical risks. Some countries, such as El Salvador and Bhutan, have adopted the use of Bitcoin reserves, and many more municipalities are adopting the same.
Michael Saylor and Strategy (previously MicroStrategy) have become advocates of the corporate Bitcoin treasury, which has been adopted by MARA, MetaPlanet, and Semler Scientific.
Bitcoin has grown to become one of the biggest assets, bigger than Google in terms of market capitalization, and is now among the top five assets globally, surpassing even Amazon and silver.
This meteoric rise shows how Bitcoin has become an important part of institutional planning and is an indication of its status as a store of value in the modern world economy.
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