Bitcoin News
By Dan Saada
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Government Bonds Losing Their Safe-Haven Status. For decades, government bonds were the bedrock of defensive investing.
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Bitcoin as the Emerging Alternative. Enter Bitcoin. Wu sees the cryptocurrency stepping into the vacuum that bonds are leaving behind.
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What Investors Are Actually Doing Now. The practical reality for investors right now is messy. Bonds are behaving badly.
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Bond prices are surging. And not in a good way for the people who hold them.
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BitMEX researcher Shang Wu is watching the fixed-income market closely, and what he sees is pretty alarming.
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Wu calls it "structural." Not cyclical. Not a blip.
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For decades, government bonds were the bedrock of defensive investing. When equity markets got wild, you rotated into bonds. When inflation fears spiked, you bought duration.
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That's the uncomfortable part. The hedge isn't hedging anymore.
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Fixed-income investors are caught flat-footed. Many of them built their entire risk management frameworks around the assumption that government bonds would hold steady when…
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Wu's framing of the shift as "structural" matters because it changes the calculus. A cyclical problem goes away on its own. A structural one doesn't.
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A supercycle isn't just a bull run. It's a regime change. The idea is that Bitcoin stops being a fringe asset that traders flip for quick gains and starts functioning as a…
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It's worth being clear about what Wu is and isn't saying. He's not predicting a specific price target. He's not giving a timeline.
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The cryptocurrency has seen serious growth over recent years, and its appeal as a hedge against traditional market volatility has grown alongside it.
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The practical reality for investors right now is messy. Bonds are behaving badly. Equities are volatile. Cash loses purchasing power.
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