Overview
- The Bridgewater Associates founder reiterated that Bitcoin’s public, permanent ledger makes transactions trackable in ways governments would reject for reserve assets.
- Dalio warned that future advances in quantum computing could compromise Bitcoin’s cryptography, calling this a long-term security risk.
- He confirmed he has held roughly 1% of his portfolio in Bitcoin for years while favoring physical gold as a more dependable store of value.
- Dalio has previously suggested allocating about 15% of portfolios to a mix of Bitcoin and gold, even as he emphasizes gold’s independence from digital infrastructure.
- Recent context includes Bitcoin trading near $86,000 after a pullback from October’s record, expert estimates placing quantum threats years away, and limited central‑bank experiments such as the Czech National Bank’s $100 million test allocation across crypto assets.