Bitcoin now constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world today .

[betswift]

This milestone is a testament of Bitcoin ever growing micro economic importance which is deep rooted in institutional adoption what started as a fringe assert is now one of the biggest investment drives of the world today.

I was also surprised, first the government and their famous companies were against Bitcoin, but now they are in a bitcoin, what really happened to Bitcoin...!

Life is indeed difficult to guess, which is considered negatively leading to the positive and positively considered to be negative, so that is the way of perspective in everyday life, as well as the view of the people for Bitcoin.

When profit is at hand, it doesn't matter what it is - corpos would grab it by the tail to try it out themselves, BTC or not.

[Maslate]

And if you look at the daily transactions, this year compared to last year, there’s actually been a huge decline.

While that is not completely incorrect, the transaction number alone is misleading due to the impact of Ordinals in 2023/24 which artificially boosted the transaction volume. See here how the variable "Bitcoin sent in USD" evolved:

My bad, I didn’t consider that.. thanks for pointing it out. So with that in mind, there’s actually clear growth in terms of average transactions per day. Back in 2022, it was around 200K daily, but then during 2023 up to 2024 we had the whole Ordinals spam clogging the network. If you compare 2022 to 2025, the difference is huge, you can definitely see some major growth happening.

[betswift]

And if you look at the daily transactions, this year compared to last year, there’s actually been a huge decline.

While that is not completely incorrect, the transaction number alone is misleading due to the impact of Ordinals in 2023/24 which artificially boosted the transaction volume. See here how the variable "Bitcoin sent in USD" evolved:

My bad, I didn’t consider that.. thanks for pointing it out. So with that in mind, there’s actually clear growth in terms of average transactions per day. Back in 2022, it was around 200K daily, but then during 2023 up to 2024 we had the whole Ordinals spam clogging the network. If you compare 2022 to 2025, the difference is huge, you can definitely see some major growth happening.

And it's going to be even bigger with many services accepting BTC (and more to come!).

The more time passes, the more BTC is acknowledged.

[Iranus]

Gold that has existed for a long time has a market cap of about $22.709 trillion. So Bitcoin has not performed poorly considering that it has been around for less than two decades. The next fifteen years will be about three halvings, $20 trillion in market cap is not a bad prediction considering the attention Bitcoin is getting. Silver with a market cap of $2.146 trillion, is already behind Bitcoin, getting close to gold is possible. 

Bitcoin needs to increase its capitalization 10x to compete with gold, but gold only needs to double its current capitalization for the gap between them to become huge.

If bitcoin can increase 10x in the next 15 years, it is not unreasonable for gold to double or even triple. Therefore, there is no doubt that bitcoin can become the second largest asset in the world. But competing with gold won't be as simple as we imagine because gold won't stand still and wait for bitcoin to overtake it.

[Solosanz]

It's big, even gold is the biggest asset in the world is only constitutes 17% of the whole money.

To be honest global monetary policy is changing and we are seeing Bitcoin being given importance in the current financial structure. Recently many countries have been adopting Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, in particular today we also saw that a Latin American country, Brazil will hold a hearing on Bitcoin's strategic reserve in a few days. The growing interest in Bitcoin among these countries and institutions is mainly due to the increase in Bitcoin's popularity. Perhaps this is an indication of how much Bitcoin holdings are increasing.

However companies are currently leading the way in Bitcoin holdings compared to countries and the expected number of retail holders is higher. So it can be said that Bitcoin has reached 1.7% of the global money supply at present, therefore if its adoption rate accelerates as it does now, perhaps the amount of Bitcoin in the global money supply will increase in the future.

Accepting global reserve isn't as good as like what people think, people think the government gonna start to buy Bitcoin, but US for the example, they're not buying Bitcoin, instead they will use seized coins as their reserve.

Which mean they only change the "name". People thought the government will join a part to make Bitcoin price rise, but it's actually only the retails bump the price.

[d5000]

My bad, I didn’t consider that.. thanks for pointing it out. So with that in mind, there’s actually clear growth in terms of average transactions per day.

Still the growth is less than expected if you take into account Bitcoin's price increase since 2023, which results already in some "natural growth" in the volume being transferred, and thus I wrote that you were not completely wrong. From my interpretation, it is the case that most of the growth comes from investment (ETFs etc.), but a small portion may come from the growth as a currency too.

If bitcoin can increase 10x in the next 15 years, it is not unreasonable for gold to double or even triple.

I expect that if Bitcoin's market cap continues to approach "the value of all gold" in the world, the idea that both are competitors could become more popular. And thus a Bitcoin price increase, if it's related to massive investments like treasuries (both corporate and public), could lead to gold actually lose some of its market cap and also share.

I think also gold is in a bubble right now due to the unstable international situation, so I would not be surprised for it to fall below $3000 again. Bitcoin may be too, but in the case of gold the long term trend is much less clearly positive (there were actually decade-long bear markets) than in the case of Bitcoin.

[Maslate]

My bad, I didn’t consider that.. thanks for pointing it out. So with that in mind, there’s actually clear growth in terms of average transactions per day.

Still the growth is less than expected if you take into account Bitcoin's price increase since 2023, which results already in some "natural growth" in the volume being transferred, and thus I wrote that you were not completely wrong. From my interpretation, it is the case that most of the growth comes from investment (ETFs etc.), but a small portion may come from the growth as a currency too.

This is exactly what we don’t want to see but already expected, since it’s the time when institutional investors position themselves. Maybe in the near future when they slow down on accumulating and the market becomes less volatile, that’s when the transaction volume will really start to increase.

I also believe they’re not just accumulating, they probably have a plan to push adoption because that will only strengthen their investment.
So for now we just wait for that time to come.

[uche6215]

1.7% is still a low percentage but as of botcoin it is good move because bitcoin still new in the economy and it is growing faster than many countries economies. Bitcoin is ranked as the to 5 asset in the world, so more three years to come bitcoin will over take assets and it will be 3-5% in the world.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Accepting global reserve isn't as good as like what people think, people think the government gonna start to buy Bitcoin, but US for the example, they're not buying Bitcoin, instead they will use seized coins as their reserve.

Which mean they only change the "name". People thought the government will join a part to make Bitcoin price rise, but it's actually only the retails bump the price.

Trump's bitcoin reserve is not a national reserve, it is just an executive order and has little real meaning or impact. The official national strategic reserve needs to be approved by Congress and only then can they use the budget to buy bitcoin and increase their strategic reserve. Like the Fed buying gold or other central banks buying gold. Only then will we feel how large the positive impact of the global bitcoin reserve is.

Currently, only El Salvador and Bhutan are the only two countries that have added bitcoin to their national reserves, the United States has yet to officially add bitcoin to its national reserves.

[fruktik]

It would be better just a good alternative to fiat, than to compete with gold itself..

In some countries, it has already become an alternative currency. The world is very negative about not only new technologies, but also about finances. Very conservative people live on the planet, and they are the majority. In addition, they are wary of what they do not understand. This applies to Bitcoin. Quite a large number of people still perceive it as a financial pyramid. They do not even partially want to understand and read information about it. That is why we are seeing such a picture.

Will something change in the future? It is difficult to say now. There has been no significant change in almost 2 decades. Although the technology is very popular for its decentralization. Perhaps, when the world again faces a large-scale financial crisis, we will see different approval figures.

[mindrust]

Governments globally can print more new money and add it to global money supply in a faster rate than a rate of price growth as well as market cap growth of Bitcoin.

It's my belief and even I love Bitcoin so much, hope all the best for it in the future, I don't believe that Bitcoin can beat inflationary rates of fiat currencies and how global money supply will increase in the future.

It is very unrealistic wish that Bitcoin can do such outperformance against governments, fiat currencies and global money supply as we know that governments and central banks can print as much new money as they want. No restrictions on how much new money they can print (not allowed to print, as it's their freedom to print more money).

You seem to forget that bitcoin acts as an inflation sink as well. Actually that’s one its existential purpose. Satoshi was talking about how banksters ruined the financial system irreversibly in 2008 during the dotcom bubble and that’s why bitcoin came to existence. To become an alternative to the current fuckery of a clown world.

What if they print more?

Bitcoin will absorb the excessive liquidity as it has been doing in the last 15 years. Nothing is going to change there.

[Synchronice]

Bitcoin which where designed by the pseudonymous   Satoshi Nakamoto sometimes in 2008 which was considered less fancy then as most people didn't give much attention to the idea which was designed primarily as a digital store of value which can be made to make digital transactions removing the place of a third party is today revolutionizing the world especially on the digital space , Bitcoin now accounts for 1.7% of the total money in the world world with a market cape of about 2.35  trillion dollars versus a global m2 of about 140 trillion dollars.

This milestone is a testament of Bitcoin ever growing micro economic importance which is deep rooted in institutional adoption what started as a fringe assert is now one of the biggest investment drives of the world today.
https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604913470

Bitcoin wasn't designed primarily as a digital store of value but it was designed to solve the existing e-commerce problems and to get rid of 3rd parties during the payment without ruining the trust.
It's a very good thing that Bitcoin now constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world, it's a huge achievement. The currency, that was created a few years ago achieved extremely amazing success. An extraordinary thing happened in 21st century and many of us missed to be the part of it from the beginning, so we didn't profit much but better late than never.

[shield132]

Bitcoin which where designed by the pseudonymous   Satoshi Nakamoto sometimes in 2008 which was considered less fancy then as most people didn't give much attention to the idea which was designed primarily as a digital store of value which can be made to make digital transactions removing the place of a third party is today revolutionizing the world especially on the digital space , Bitcoin now accounts for 1.7% of the total money in the world world with a market cape of about 2.35  trillion dollars versus a global m2 of about 140 trillion dollars.

This milestone is a testament of Bitcoin ever growing micro economic importance which is deep rooted in institutional adoption what started as a fringe assert is now one of the biggest investment drives of the world today.
https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604913470

Bitcoin was designed to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, not a store of value. You can read it in the whitepaper and that's why I have always been against holding Bitcoin because holding kills it, we need to regularly use Bitcoin for what it was created, a p2p transactions. The more transactions we make, more alive the currency will be, the more adoption and support we will see but today things are changing. Governments and big corporations like BlackRock are pushing it to become a store of value and not a p2p electronic cash system because they buy lots of Bitcoins to hold them. Today, I do not advocate against holding, instead, I support holding because we shouldn't let the government buy Bitcoin cheaply from us to later sell that expensively to us.

It's very good that Bitcoin constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world. This number will only grow in the near future.

[john_egbert]

Bitcoin wasn't designed primarily as a digital store of value but it was designed to solve the existing e-commerce problems and to get rid of 3rd parties during the payment without ruining the trust.
It's a very good thing that Bitcoin now constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world, it's a huge achievement. The currency, that was created a few years ago achieved extremely amazing success. An extraordinary thing happened in 21st century and many of us missed to be the part of it from the beginning, so we didn't profit much but better late than never.

It's never late to use BTC and learn about it.

And, surely, we won't have such big profits if we tried ourselves in BTC in the earlier days: but we shouldn't mourn, we should act with what can do now

[Publictalk792]

Bitcoin was designed to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, not a store of value. You can read it in the whitepaper and that's why I have always been against holding Bitcoin because holding kills it, we need to regularly use Bitcoin for what it was created, a p2p transactions. The more transactions we make, more alive the currency will be, the more adoption and support we will see but today things are changing. Governments and big corporations like BlackRock are pushing it to become a store of value and not a p2p electronic cash system because they buy lots of Bitcoins to hold them. Today, I do not advocate against holding, instead, I support holding because we shouldn't let the government buy Bitcoin cheaply from us to later sell that expensively to us.

It's very good that Bitcoin constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world. This number will only grow in the near future.

You are right riginal idea behind Bitcoin was for it to be used as digital cash system for daily transactions as stated in its white paper. And due to its price swings and slower transaction speeds it has become more popular as store of value or as digital gold much like long-term investment. This shift is also pushed by large financial companies and governments. Your new viewpoint that it is better to hold Bitcoin to prevent these big players from buying it cheaply and selling it back at high price reflects this change showing that  debate over Bitcoin true purpose is still ongoing as its global presence continues to grow.

[purple_sparkles]

Bitcoin wasn't designed primarily as a digital store of value but it was designed to solve the existing e-commerce problems and to get rid of 3rd parties during the payment without ruining the trust.
It's a very good thing that Bitcoin now constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world, it's a huge achievement. The currency, that was created a few years ago achieved extremely amazing success. An extraordinary thing happened in 21st century and many of us missed to be the part of it from the beginning, so we didn't profit much but better late than never.

It's never late to use BTC and learn about it.

And, surely, we won't have such big profits if we tried ourselves in BTC in the earlier days: but we shouldn't mourn, we should act with what can do now

Bitcoin gives us the opportunity today to make a good investment for ourselves, and it doesn’t matter whether we started just now or earlier. I’m very glad that I learned about this investment opportunity because I’m confident in the bright future of bitcoin.He  has a lot of potential for development and growth.

[nemesis_incarnate]

Bitcoin gives us the opportunity today to make a good investment for ourselves, and it doesn’t matter whether we started just now or earlier. I’m very glad that I learned about this investment opportunity because I’m confident in the bright future of bitcoin.He  has a lot of potential for development and growth.

Bitcoin is the future alternative to the traditional world.

Not only that, but it's the best alternative out there to be at the helm of your custody

[fuguebtc]

Bitcoin was designed to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, not a store of value. You can read it in the whitepaper and that's why I have always been against holding Bitcoin because holding kills it, we need to regularly use Bitcoin for what it was created, a p2p transactions. The more transactions we make, more alive the currency will be, the more adoption and support we will see but today things are changing. Governments and big corporations like BlackRock are pushing it to become a store of value and not a p2p electronic cash system because they buy lots of Bitcoins to hold them. Today, I do not advocate against holding, instead, I support holding because we shouldn't let the government buy Bitcoin cheaply from us to later sell that expensively to us.

It's very good that Bitcoin constitutes about 1.7% of money in the world. This number will only grow in the near future.

It is not governments, corporations or financial institutions that have promoted bitcoin as a store of value, but us( bitcoin investors). Because bitcoin was used as a speculative asset by early investors from the very beginning. Governments and financial institutions play only a small role in this process as they have officially recognized and legalized bitcoin as a commodity and joined the race to accumulate bitcoin.

By the way, as I understand it, currency can also be considered a store of value but this depends on the type of currency. A store of value is an asset that is scarce, durable, and does not depreciate over time. So, if bitcoin does not become a commodity, an investment, and is used for its original purpose, it can also be used as a store of value.