{"id":7639,"date":"2026-06-17T18:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/mexican-billionaire-ricardo-salinas-bets-70-of-his-portfolio-on-bitcoin-eyes-1-million-price\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:16:36","slug":"mexican-billionaire-ricardo-salinas-bets-70-of-his-portfolio-on-bitcoin-eyes-1-million-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/mexican-billionaire-ricardo-salinas-bets-70-of-his-portfolio-on-bitcoin-eyes-1-million-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Bets 70% of His Portfolio on Bitcoin, Eyes $1 Million Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Mexican Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Bets 70% of His Portfolio on Bitcoin, Eyes $1 Million Price<\/a><\/p>\n

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Long before bitcoin existed, Ricardo Salinas Pliego<\/a> was learning about hard money at the family dinner table.<\/p>\n

Born in Mexico City in 1955, Salinas is the founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail. In 1987, he took over from his father as CEO of Grupo Elektra \u2014 originally a family-owned furniture manufacturing company founded in 1906 by his great-grandfather \u2014 and refocused it on appliances, electronics, and consumer credit for Mexico\u2019s emerging middle class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, his empire includes Banco Azteca, TV Azteca, and dozens of other enterprises spanning the country.<\/p>\n

But Salinas\u2019 financial philosophy was shaped well before any of that. He traces his deep belief in fiat devaluation to the era when President Richard Nixon severed the U.S. dollar\u2019s direct convertibility into gold, ending the gold standard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conversation at the family table, way back then, with my grandfather and my father was always about gold,\u201d he told CoinDesk in a recent interview<\/a>, adding that \u201cthe famous fiat fraud committed by Richard Nixon\u201d was a constant topic of discussion at home. The Salinas family, long involved in gold and silver mining, had direct skin in the game.<\/p>\n

Salinas: Bitcoin is unseizable\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Those early lessons hardened into conviction. Salinas has argued for years<\/a> that bitcoin is unseizable and can be transferred instantly worldwide \u2014 advantages he sees as superior to both fiat money and the gold standard, which he says \u201chas always been subject to governmental intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salinas didn\u2019t arrive at bitcoin all at once. His bitcoin allocation has grown dramatically \u2014 from just 10% of his investment portfolio in 2020 to 70% today<\/a>, a trajectory that mirrors his deepening conviction in the asset over half a decade.<\/p>\n

In June 2021, Salinas publicly announced he was working with his bank, Banco Azteca, to make it the first in Mexico to accept bitcoin \u2014 a bold move that drew both applause from the crypto community and swift pushback from Mexican financial regulators, who issued warnings<\/a> about virtual assets. The banking ambitions stalled, but his personal conviction only grew.<\/p>\n

That same year, his hunger for bitcoin exposure led him into one of the stranger episodes of his financial career. Salinas wanted to put $400 million into bitcoin in 2021 but didn\u2019t have the liquid cash readily available, so he borrowed against his shares in Grupo Elektra \u2014 pledging $416 million as collateral for a $150 million loan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His instincts about bitcoin were correct. The only problem was the lender turned out to be a fraud: a firm calling itself Astor Capital Fund, whose CEO \u201cThomas Astor-Mellon\u201d introduced himself on a video call from what appeared to be a yacht, but was actually a man with prior convictions for forging prescriptions and stealing jewelry.<\/p>\n

Even that painful episode didn\u2019t shake him loose. At Bitcoin 2022, Salinas gave a keynote address discussing what he calls the \u201cfiat fraud\u201d \u2014 his term for centralized institutions that assure users of generational wealth while quietly destroying their currency\u2019s purchasing power. He told the crowd his conviction was personal, not theoretical: \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to understand a theoretical problem, and another to have lived it in your skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 70% bet \u2014 and why you should mortgage your house to buy Bitcoin<\/h2>\n

As of today, Salinas has placed approximately 70% of his investment portfolio into BTC \u2014 a figure he discussed in the interview with CoinDesk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The allocation dwarfs what most wealth advisers would sanction. But Salinas has never been one for conventional wisdom. He is so convinced of BTC\u2019s long-term superiority that he persuaded his own wife to act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know this is a controversial topic, but I convinced my wife to mortgage the house that she has and take a loan to buy bitcoin,\u201d he said. And she did.<\/p>\n

He wants ordinary investors to think similarly. \u201cFor most people, the biggest investment, their nest egg, is their home equity,\u201d he said. \u201cFind a way to transform that into some kind of bitcoin exposure to a larger or to a smaller degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

His argument is grounded in a straightforward historical comparison.<\/a> In January 2016, bitcoin hovered near $400 and the average Central London home cost roughly $1.6 million \u2014 about 4,000 bitcoin. With London property prices little changed a decade on, that same home would now cost fewer than 30 bitcoin. For Salinas, that comparison is all the proof anyone needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an asymmetrical bet to the upside,\u201d he told CoinDesk. \u201cThe more people find out about bitcoin, the more demand there will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked on the price predictions of fellow BTC bulls like Cathie Wood and Michael Saylor \u2014 who have suggested bitcoin could eventually reach seven figures \u2014 Salinas was uncharacteristically brief.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it will be a million dollars,\u201d he said. \u201cI just don\u2019t know when.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post Mexican Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Bets 70% of His Portfolio on Bitcoin, Eyes $1 Million Price<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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