Bitcoin News
By Evie Vavasseur
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From 1–2% to Something Bigger. Back in 2022, before crypto markets collapsed, Dalio said 1% to 2% in Bitcoin was a "reasonable"…
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Why This Matters Beyond Bridgewater. Dalio's reach in the investment world is hard to overstate.
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Ray Dalio is telling investors to buy gold and Bitcoin. Not a lot of Bitcoin — but some. And he's pretty serious about it.
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The Bridgewater Associates founder, whose personal wealth sits above $15 billion, put out a recent post laying out his thinking: allocate 10% to 15% of a portfolio to gold, plus…
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Bonds are basically the problem, in his view.
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Dalio has been pushing investors away from debt assets for a while now. His concern isn't abstract — he thinks a genuine U.S.
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By July 2025, his tone had shifted. He mentioned actually holding some Bitcoin himself, and his recommendation moved toward up to 15% combined in gold and cryptocurrency.
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And he's been consistent on one point: Bitcoin isn't gold. He's said it repeatedly, and he's not walking that back. Gold remains his primary store-of-value recommendation.
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His concerns about Bitcoin haven't disappeared either. He's raised questions about privacy and about what quantum computing could eventually do to the cryptographic foundations…
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See also: Key Technical Levels for Bitcoin and Ethereum Set for Weekend Trading Surge
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Dalio's reach in the investment world is hard to overstate. Bridgewater's track record and his decades of writing about economic cycles mean his views get taken seriously by…
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And the shift is subtle but real. In 2022, he was recommending a token position — barely a rounding error in most portfolios.
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The debt crisis framing is key. Dalio isn't bullish on Bitcoin because he loves the asset. He's cautiously warming to it because he's bearish on the alternative.
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That's actually a fairly common institutional framing at this point. Hard assets as insurance against sovereign debt problems. Bitcoin as digital gold, imperfect but functional.
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He's still not rushing. No set timeline on when he'd change his allocation. No specific price targets. No dramatic call.
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