Long-term store of value: Bitcoin is independent from central banks’ money printing and demonetisation policies. In this role, bitcoin acts like ‘digital gold’, a diversifier for global portfolios and a potential hedge against a crisis in traditional finance.
Largest and most liquid crypto asset: Bitcoin’s market cap dominance in the digital assets sector has been close to 50% and some traders use bitcoin as a tool to take directional bets on the crypto industry.
The future of peer-to-peer payments: Blockchains create a global, open source, public registry of transactions records where value can be transmitted globally, without an intermediary and could result in significant cost and time savings.
Diversified risk-return: Adding bitcoin to a portfolio could help diversify and potentially enhance the risk-return profile of investment portfolios, due to its uncorrelated return behaviour with other major asset classes.
Diversified risk-return
Potential platform for new innovations: Bitcoin Ordinals enable inscriptions, such as text or images, to be added to the Bitcoin network, enabling the creation of bitcoin non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The future of peer-to-peer payments
Long-term store of value
Investment and reserve asset
Potential platform for new innovations
Largest and most liquidcrypto asset
Investment and reserve asset: Bitcoin has been adopted as a treasury asset for some corporations and could also be incorporated into central bank reserves in the future.
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