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Story: Bitcoin and Gold ETFs Attract $7 Billion Amid U.S. Debt Crisis Surpassing $40 Trillion

By Steven Anderson

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Dollar Weakness and $40 Trillion in Debt. The story behind the numbers is pretty much what you'd expect from a market that's scared of…

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Bitcoin's Scarcity Trade Gains Ground. The scarcity argument isn't new, but it's getting louder.

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What the Shift Could Mean. Here's the harder question: is this a trade or a transformation?

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Gold and Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in $7 billion. Five trading days. That's not a blip — that's a signal.

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SPDR Gold Shares, ticker GLD, grabbed roughly $3.4 billion of that haul. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust, known as IBIT, took in about $1.5 billion.

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Matt Hougan, a leading investment officer, put it bluntly — traditional portfolios are fully fiat-denominated, and that's becoming a problem when fiscal volatility is this high.

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Matt Cole, a CEO in the space, said the dollar's slide is pushing investors toward limited-supply assets. Bitcoin's hard cap of 21 million coins is the obvious selling point there.

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The scarcity argument isn't new, but it's getting louder. When government debt climbs alongside interest rates, the temptation for policymakers to let inflation run — or quietly…

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Bernstein research pointed to Bitcoin's fixed issuance and broader access as structural advantages.

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More context: XRP Funds Surge as Bitcoin ETF Inflows Drop to $232M, Smallest Since August

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BlackRock's own research went further, saying Bitcoin added to traditional portfolio models could actually improve performance.

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Gold's reputation as a monetary hedge is established, decades deep. Bitcoin's version of that story is shorter and bumpier.

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If Bitcoin holds its demand even when the dollar stabilizes or recovers, the $7 billion move starts to look like a structural portfolio shift — not just a momentum play.

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It's unclear which outcome plays out. Probably both happen in different corners of the market at the same time, which is kind of how these things go.

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See also: Druckenmiller Critiques Treasurys $4 Billion Bond Buyback as Bitcoin Surges 23.8%

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