Analysis of Whether Bitcoin Can Help Individual Investors Hedge Their Risks as a Safe-haven Asset
Yuepeng Jin · Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences · 2023
Nowadays, investment in Bitcoin has become the focus of many investors. Many researchers have conducted a lot of research and discussion on the value of Bitcoin. To this day, there is still a lot of debate about the investment value of Bitcoin. This paper mainly reviews the origin of Bitcoin, its development degree in today’s economic life, and some of its advantages and disadvantages based on relevant literature research. The author compares it to Safe-Haven Asset from an investor’s point of view. Bitcoin investments are still, in many ways, less safe-haven and valuable than traditional gold, for example. Finally, it is concluded that investors should not use Bitcoin as a safe-haven asset to make a lot of inappropriate investments.