Bitcoin Or Real Estate? It’s Time To Change How We Think About Wealth

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A man comforts his daughter on the charred ruins of their family home burned in the Eaton Fire in ... [+] Altadena, California, January 9, 2025. (Photo by ZOE MEYERS/AFP via Getty Images)
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For generations, conventional wisdom has dictated that real estate is one of the safest and most reliable ways to store wealth. Unlike stocks, bonds, or cash, real estate is tangible—you can touch it, live in it, and pass it down to future generations. It is this physicality that has given real estate its status as a foundational asset class for wealth preservation.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, has long been dismissed by traditional investors as the opposite. Critics say it has no physical presence, no utility, and no capacity to store value over the long term. They reason that, unlike real estate, you can’t touch bitcoin, you can’t live in it, and it’s hard to insure. It’s just code, they say. How can something so ephemeral be a store of value?
The answer, ironically, lies in that very same physicality—or rather, in the vulnerabilities of physical assets. As recent disasters in California and North Carolina have made painfully clear, the ability to touch an asset is not always an advantage. And in an era of increasing geopolitical instability, natural disasters, and shifting economic paradigms, bitcoin is proving to be the ultimate store of value precisely because of its unique form of physicality. That is, bitcoin is physical, just not in a way that makes it vulnerable to natural disasters.
The Fragility of Tangible Wealth
The catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles have left behind an apocalyptic landscape of destruction, reducing over 12,000 homes and buildings to ash. Families who had spent decades building wealth in their properties returned to find nothing but rubble and the haunting reality that their most valuable asset—their home—was gone.
In Western North Carolina, hurricanes have wiped entire towns off the map. Months later, many residents are still living in RVs, tents, or temporary shelters, unable to rebuild due to sky-high costs, insurance battles, or the simple fact that the land itself has become uninhabitable.

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