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After an early-year slide, Bitcoin has reversed direction is now close to regaining its $100,000 price level.
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Many investors are beginning to view Bitcoin as a safe haven and potential hedge against global uncertainty.
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If the trade battle escalates in 2025, it could gain momentum as a potential reserve currency for the global financial system.
There’s no denying that new global tariffs have turned the crypto market upside down in 2025. Just take a look at the top 50 cryptocurrencies as ranked by market cap; only a small handful of them are still up year to date.
One of those is Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which has proved surprisingly resilient. It’s now up 12% over the past 30 days and 1% for the year. It is, quite simply, the best cryptocurrency to buy during the current tariff battle, and here’s why.
There’s a simple reason Bitcoin has managed to eke out a 1% gain for the year: Investors are increasingly viewing it as a hedge against economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Historically, it has been uncorrelated with any major asset class. In short, it can zig when other assets zag. So, even if the entire U.S. stock market is collapsing due to tariffs, the crypto still has the potential to buck the trend. That makes it very valuable as a potential hedge.
Moreover, the digital coin has proved, time and time again, to be resilient against economic and geopolitical shocks. Last September, BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) published a 10-page report on the unique diversification properties of Bitcoin.
It included an entire section on how well it has held up during times of crisis. BlackRock looked at six specific shocks to the global economic system that occurred between 2020 and 2024 and found that it actually outperformed gold in five of those six cases.
That’s interesting, because gold has historically been the one safe-haven asset that investors need to hold during any period of crisis. That’s why gold has soared past the $3,000 mark this year, and why some analysts think that it could even hit $4,000 by early 2026. If you are fearful about the future, you buy gold.
So, if you buy into the notion that Bitcoin is “digital gold,” then it could begin to narrow the performance gap with the precious metal over the course of the next eight months. That could set it up nicely for a nice mini-rally in the second half of 2025, even if global trade is falling off a container ship.
On the surface, Bitcoin has very little to do with global trade, tariffs, imports, or exports. There’s only a very limited amount of trade that’s actually settled in that crypto.
