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title: Bitcoin as Reserve Asset
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5208070/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5208070
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5208070
featured: 2025-04-09
citations: unknown
topic: Crypto & DeFi
---


# Bitcoin as Reserve Asset

A paper questions the suitability of Bitcoin as a reserve asset for U.S. governments, citing its extreme volatility, lack of intrinsic value, and increasing correlation with other risk assets.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5208070
- Identifier: SSRN 5208070
- Released: 2025-04-07
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 92 (2025-04-09): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-09/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Crypto & DeFi

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