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Where does Bitcoin fit among asset classes?
By Mehdi, Senior Sukuk Fund Manager · Updated May 2026
Setting aside the permissibility debate (covered fully elsewhere), the practical question is what role Bitcoin could even play in a portfolio. Let me be honest and measured.
The short answer: Bitcoin is best understood as a young, highly volatile asset class of its own — some hold it as a kind of "digital gold," a scarce store of value outside the banking system. If it fits a portfolio at all, it is as a small, cautious slice, never a centrepiece.
Bitcoin behaves unlike the older asset classes. Its supporters frame it as digital gold — scarce, outside any government's control, a potential hedge against money-printing. Its reality so far is extreme volatility: it can double or halve in months, swings no other mainstream asset matches. So if it has a place, it is the high-risk, high-uncertainty corner — capable of large gains and large losses, with no underlying business or rent to anchor its value the way a share or property has.
Where we stand: cautious, and small. Even setting aside the live scholarly debate on holding it, prudence alone says a thing this volatile belongs only as a minor allocation you could afford to see fall hard — sized to your profile, owned outright with no leverage or interest products, and never confused with a foundation. Permissible-to-some is not the same as suitable-for-you.
The fear of missing out is one of the loudest voices in modern money, and one of the emptiest. A believer sizes his risks by his responsibilities and his amanah, not by the noise of a crowd chasing a chart. Calm, measured stewardship will always outlast the rush.
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