Blockstream General Director Adam Beck, while performing at Paris Blockchain Week 2025, said that in the next ten years, Bitcoin could begin to supplant gold as the main tool for protection against inflation and geopolitical instability. This was reported in Cointelegraph.
He noted that bitcoin, like gold, is a scarce asset, but unlike precious metal, is in the process of active global introduction:
According to Bek, the rapid increase in the money supply in US dollars and the euro over the past five years is more than 50% stimulates the demand for reliable assets, in particular, such as bitcoin. This gives cryptocurrencies the potential to take part of the niches, which previously traditionally belonged to gold, including the function of protection against geopolitical risks.
In addition to macroeconomic factors, Beck also noted positive changes in the US regulatory environment. In particular, the approval of exchange bitcoin -etf and the softening of anti-Critical policy under the US President Donald Trump.
Recall that Trump seeks to make the United States a cryptostostolian in the world, and changes in regulation, in his opinion, will lead to economic growth.
However, while the US president’s tariff policy negatively affects the first cryptocurrency.
Beck believes that it is precisely private investors who should be the first to use the advantages of cryptocurrencies:
Note that the CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink sees in Bitcoin the potential reserve currency of the United States instead of the dollar.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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