{"id":919252,"date":"2026-07-12T01:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/bitcoin-price-analysis-ray-dalio-says-bitcoin-fails-as-a-safe-haven-and-saylor-just-fired-back\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:17:27","slug":"bitcoin-price-analysis-ray-dalio-says-bitcoin-fails-as-a-safe-haven-and-saylor-just-fired-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/bitcoin-price-analysis-ray-dalio-says-bitcoin-fails-as-a-safe-haven-and-saylor-just-fired-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Analysis: Ray Dalio Says Bitcoin Fails as a Safe Haven And Saylor Just Fired Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ray Dalio just took another swing at Bitcoin<\/a>. Michael Saylor caught it and threw it back harder, fueling bullish Bitcoin price analysis.<\/p>\n

Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and one of the most closely watched macro investors alive, issued a fresh critique of Bitcoin as a store of value, targeting 3 specific weaknesses.<\/p>\n

First, privacy. Every Bitcoin transaction is publicly visible and can be monitored or potentially controlled by governments, which, in Dalio\u2019s view, disqualifies it as a reserve asset for central banks. <\/p>\n

Second, correlation. Bitcoin moves with tech stocks, meaning investors dump it when they need liquidity elsewhere, exactly the opposite behavior you want from a safe haven.<\/p>\n

Third, size. Bitcoin is still a relatively small and controllable market compared to gold, which is deeply embedded in the global financial system, widely held across sovereign balance sheets, and has no digital equivalent competing for its role.<\/p>\n

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While Bitcoin gets a lot of attention, it hasn\u2019t played the safe-haven role many expected. In my view, there are a few reasons why.<\/p>\n

First, Bitcoin lacks privacy. Transactions can be monitored and potentially controlled, which is why central banks aren\u2019t looking to hold it.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/j78NJdvrOw<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2014 Ray Dalio (@RayDalio) May 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Saylor\u2019s counter<\/a> was direct. Bitcoin\u2019s transparency is a feature, not a bug. It is precisely what makes Bitcoin usable as global collateral, a verifiable, auditable asset that any party in any jurisdiction can confirm without trusting a third party. <\/p>\n

He also pointed to Bitcoin\u2019s Sharpe ratio, arguing it has consistently outperformed gold on a risk-adjusted basis. <\/p>\n

Source: Micheal Saylor on X<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bitcoin financial services firm River backed the bull case separately, noting that unlike physical gold, Bitcoin can actually be used for payments and cross-border transfers, making it functionally superior as a monetary tool even if gold has a longer institutional track record. <\/p>\n

What makes Dalio\u2019s position interesting is the contradiction sitting underneath it. He revealed a Bitcoin allocation in 2021, has recommended small crypto allocations as recently as August 2025, and frames his own BTC position as a long-duration hedge against macroeconomic instability. He owns it. He just thinks gold is better.<\/p>\n

Criticizing an asset you hold is either intellectual honesty or a tell. Either way, both sides of this argument are now on record.<\/p>\n

Bitcoins Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can BTC Respond by Hitting $85,000?<\/h2>\n

BTC is sitting at $80,857 on the daily chart, and the broader picture shows a coin that ran from $74,000 in early 2025 to $126,000 at the January peak before collapsing nearly 50% to $61,000 in February.<\/p>\n

The recovery since that February low has been the strongest and most sustained move since the top, with price grinding from $61,000 back to $82,000, reclaiming the key $80,000 level that marked the pre-crash consolidation zone from late 2024.<\/p>\n

Source: BTCUSD \/ Tradingview<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That $80,000 to $84,000 range is now the most critical area on the chart. It was prior support for months before the breakdown, and price is currently pushing right into the underside of that zone as resistance.<\/p>\n

A clean daily close above $84,000 and held would be a significant technical development, signaling that the breakdown from January has been fully reclaimed and opening the path toward $90,000, $96,000, and eventually a retest of the $100,000 psychological level.<\/p>\n

The downside risk is a rejection here at $82,000 to $84,000, sending price back toward $72,000 to $75,000, which was the main consolidation range during the recovery and would need to hold to keep the bullish structure intact.<\/p>\n

The recovery from $61,000 to $82,000 is real, and the structure of higher lows since February is clean, but reclaiming $84,000 is the moment this goes from recovery trade to genuine bullish continuation.<\/p>\n

Bitcoins LiquidChain Doesn\u2019t Care About Bitcoin, 1000x Potential?<\/h2>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s compressed volatility and uncertain near-term trajectory are exactly the environments where early-stage infrastructure plays attract attention.<\/p>\n

When the market\u2019s largest asset is range-bound, capital looks for asymmetric setups elsewhere, and cross-chain infrastructure is one area seeing genuine developer demand regardless of short-term price cycles.<\/p>\n

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LiquidChain<\/a> is positioning itself as the cross-chain liquidity layer for the next generation of DeFi. The Layer 3 project fuses Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana liquidity into a single execution environment, a meaningful technical proposition given how fragmented on-chain liquidity remains across those three ecosystems. <\/p>\n

Developers deploy once and access all three networks simultaneously through features such as a Unified Liquidity Layer, Single-Step Execution, Verifiable Settlement, and a Deploy-Once Architecture.<\/p>\n

The presale is currently priced at $0.01458 per $LIQUID token, with $748,837.41 raised to date. Early-stage presales carry real risk, token utility depends on protocol adoption, and L3 infrastructure is a competitive category, but the entry price reflects a pre-liquidity valuation. <\/p>\n

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Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Balaha is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Last updated:\u00a0 May 12, 2026 Ray Dalio just took another swing at Bitcoin. Michael Saylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4041,4759],"tags":[11476],"class_list":["post-919252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin","category-price","tag-bitcoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}