{"id":5554,"date":"2025-11-20T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/ray-dalio-reaffirms-bitcoin-skepticism-says-he-still-holds-just-1-allocation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:16:31","slug":"ray-dalio-reaffirms-bitcoin-skepticism-says-he-still-holds-just-1-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/ray-dalio-reaffirms-bitcoin-skepticism-says-he-still-holds-just-1-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Dalio Reaffirms Bitcoin Skepticism, Says He Still Holds Just 1% Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/ray-dalio-reaffirms-bitcoin-skepticism\">Ray Dalio Reaffirms Bitcoin Skepticism, Says He Still Holds Just 1% Allocation<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, reiterated his cautious stance on Bitcoin this week, revealing that he holds only a small fraction of the cryptocurrency in his portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on CNBC\u2019s <em>Squawk Box<\/em>, Dalio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hwkHkUpWZP4\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, \u201cI have a small percentage of Bitcoin\u2026 I\u2019ve had it forever, like 1% of my portfolios,\u201d underscoring his committed and limited exposure to the asset.<\/p>\n<p>Dalio, long known for his macroeconomic insights and <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/what-institutional-investor-ray-dalio-gets-wrong-about-bitcoin\">somewhat dubious Bitcoin takes<\/a>, emphasized that Bitcoin faces structural challenges that hinder its adoption as a global reserve currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to Bitcoin\u2019s transparency and traceability as major constraints, arguing that governments are unlikely to rely on a monetary system that is fully trackable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be a reserve currency for major countries because it can be tracked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin under threat?<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to regulatory hurdles, Dalio flagged potential long-term security risks. Advances in computing, particularly quantum technology, could one day threaten Bitcoin\u2019s cryptographic foundation, Dalio contended.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be conceivably, with quantum computing, controlled, hacked, and so on and so forth,\u201d he warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis estimates that quantum breakthroughs could jeopardize Bitcoin\u2019s security within 10 to 15 years, highlighting the technical challenges the network faces.<\/p>\n<p>Dalio has historically expressed skepticism about <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/ray-dalio-prefers-bitcoin-over-bonds\">Bitcoin\u2019s trajectory<\/a>. In 2021, he cautioned that governments <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/ray-dalio-doesnt-understand-bitcoin\">could intervene<\/a> if the cryptocurrency became too widely adopted, saying, \u201cIf it becomes really successful, they will kill it. And they have ways of killing it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet he has also acknowledged Bitcoin\u2019s durability, noting in later interviews that it has \u201cproven itself\u2026 it hasn\u2019t been hacked, it\u2019s stood the test of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater Associates\u2019 Q3 2025 filings with the SEC reveal a massive $25.53 billion U.S. equity portfolio spanning more than 1,000 positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While he has previously compared Bitcoin to digital gold, Dalio continues to advocate for traditional hedges such as gold, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/11\/20\/ray-dalio-still-owns-bitcoin-but-says-traceability-and-quantum-threat-are-concerns\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> as an asset \u201cyou can hold, and you\u2019re not dependent on someone to provide it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dalio\u2019s comments arrive amid market fear, as Bitcoin recently slipped below $86,000 following delayed U.S. employment data and broader macroeconomic pressures. Bitcoin recently hit all-time highs in October, but has since slipped 32%.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, bitcoin\u2019s price is $86,521, per most recent Bitcoin Magazine Pro data. <\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/ray-dalio-reaffirms-bitcoin-skepticism\">Ray Dalio Reaffirms Bitcoin Skepticism, Says He Still Holds Just 1% Allocation<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/micahzimmerman\">Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Ray Dalio Reaffirms Bitcoin Skepticism, Says He Still Holds Just 1% Allocation Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, reiterated his cautious stance on Bitcoin this week, revealing that he holds only a small fraction of the cryptocurrency in his portfolio.\u00a0 Speaking on CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box, Dalio said, \u201cI have a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}