Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy, suggested this week that a rumors of the US to impose rates on gold influences Bitcoin.
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According to a Bloomberg interviewSaylor argued that Bitcoin cannot be taxed at the border because it “lives in Cyberspace, where there are no rates.”
He said that the lack of physical weight of the currency and the speed of the settlement makes it more attractive than gold in a world where import tasks are discussed on precious metal.
Saylor frames Bitcoin as tariff-free assets
Reports have announced that others in the industry agree. Simon Gerovich, president of Metaplanet, called gold ‘heavy, slow and political’, and label Bitcoin ‘light, fast and free’.
Based on reports, Metaplanet – A Japanese company that manages a Bitcoin Treasury – recently bought almost $ 54 million from Bitcoin, resulting in the total interest at 17,595 BTC, about $ 1.78 billion with the current values.
Those figures are important for investors who look or business treasury will switch the allocation of stored metal to digital coins.
Market reaction and price movements
Markets responded in different ways. Golden Futures reached a record high after the tariff news, while traders prices for new import rules prices.
In the meantime, Bitcoin was exchanged aside in the same period and went down by less than 1% for the past 24 hours. The split reaction shows that a policy shock can push some capital in metal, while other buyers can sit on the sidelines or look at crypto for a different kind of hedge.
This is the purchasing power of the US dollar
This is the ultimate card pattern for all Fiat -Malutas
Some think that gold is a great value of value (maintaining purchasing power) – and that’s it
But Bitcoin will prove to be the ultimate value storage $ BTC pic.twitter.com/4rdar3trttttt– Peter Brandt (@peterlbrandt) August 8, 2025
Brandt emphasizes dollar decrease during decades
Lace-up dealer Peter Brandt added fuel to the debate by placing a long-term graph that follows the purchasing power of the US dollar in 1971 to around $ 0.031 in 2025, based on M2 money growth.
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Brandt pointed to a decrease of around 95% in that period and said that this trend shows that Fiat -Valuta can lose value for decades. That argued while gold Has kept value for many years, Bitcoin has now been positioned to serve as a store in the future.
According to Market Watchers, the rate Talk has changed the short term, but not resolved which assets is the better refuge in the long term.
Institutional buyers such as strategy and metaplanet make public bets on Bitcoin, and which forms expectations. At the same time, Gold High’s record reminds that investors who can take the demand for tangible value stores of value on the policy risk.
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