Right now, there’s a lot of nervous crypto money on the sidelines, waiting for the White House to tell us whether we are in a recession.
But guess what? Scared money don’t make money. Recession fears surrounding Bitcoin (BTC -3.56%) are overblown. In fact, Bitcoin is the first thing I’m buying if we enter a recession because it still seems like the best long-term store of value to me and the single best way to protect my financial future.
That being said, we’re in uncharted territory here. At the end of the day, nobody really knows how Bitcoin will perform during a long-lasting recession because the cryptocurrency has never experienced a long-lasting recession before. Remember — Bitcoin only came into existence in 2009, in the aftermath of the previous economic recession of 2007-09. That might explain a lot of the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) in the marketplace right now.
Here are three good reasons why I’m going to load up on Bitcoin during a recession.
Bitcoin remains a safe haven for crypto investors
This is simply Investment 101: During any economic downturn, you move into safe-haven assets. In the stock market, it means shifting into recession-resistant stocks like utilities, healthcare companies, or consumer staples. After all, even if economic activity dries up, your neighbor loses their job, and companies start going bankrupt, you can still be assured that companies churning out consumer staples or charging you for electricity are going to make money.
Now apply this same logic to the crypto market. People are going to exit risky, volatile cryptos in favor of crypto names they recognize. And right now, Bitcoin is the biggest, most trusted name out there. Even if people sell off a big chunk of their crypto holdings en masse to generate cash, they aren’t going to get rid of their Bitcoin holdings. If there is one crypto that people “HODL” — crypto lingo for “hold” — for the long term, it’s Bitcoin.
