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Viewpoint: Bitcoin may replace real estate as a new investment option, and real estate will return to its public utility attributes in the future

 scene that on August 28, 2025, at the Bitcoin Asia event held in Hong Kong, Balaji Srinivasan, the founder of Network School, stated in his keynote speech that from the perspective of asset attributes, Bitcoin exhibits global hedging characteristics. Currently, Western bonds are not truly risk-free. After the 2008 financial crisis, the West may tax the population through printing money to purchase mortgage tax and other operations, which has brought much attention to the housing issue. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has real value, and people are gradually ceasing to consider houses as investment products and are choosing to hold Bitcoin instead. In the future, real estate may return to its role as a public utility.

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