CZ: Bitcoin's million-dollar milestone won't take 25 years

CZ says Bitcoin needs utility, not just price, to define the "Bitcoin century"

Asked what would need to happen for the next 25 years to be remembered as the Bitcoin century, CZ said Bitcoin hitting a million dollars "would be a good thing" and that it "will happen" — but he does not think it needs 25 years to get there. He argued price alone is not the point: he wants to see Bitcoin payments happen "on a massive scale" and Bitcoin used as a retirement pension fund reserve.

CZ pointed to tokenized stocks as evidence of how fast infrastructure is being built, citing Bstock Finance, which he said launched only "two, three months ago" and is "already growing very quickly." He listed payments, AI, agentic finance infrastructure, stablecoins and tokenization as sectors set to expand over the next decade, concluding that crypto is "at the best point in time compared to any time in history."

"I think we're actually at the best point in time compared to any time in history. There's so many opportunities right in front of us." — CZ

On the link between tokenization and Bitcoin, CZ said sectors "help each other" even though Bitcoin's own blockchain does not handle tokenization today. He described people in Asia unable to easily get US brokerage accounts gaining access to tokenized stocks through crypto platforms, and argued that exposure eventually extends to Bitcoin, calling the whole space "truly an ecosystem."

CZ on weak governments, strong economies, and Bitcoin's privacy flaw

Asked whether Bitcoin weakens or strengthens governments, CZ said Bitcoin itself does neither — it depends on what governments choose to do with it. He argued that countries with weaker governments "actually do better" economically, using the US as an example: a large country with a comparatively "weak government" because power changes every four years between two debating parties, yet one of the strongest economies in the world.

He extended the point to regulation, contrasting the current SEC's reduced power with the prior Gary Gensler-led SEC, which he said "wanted everything in his power" and "stopped growth completely," while the industry has grown as regulators ceded ground.

"When the powerful people, the regulators have less power, sometimes the industry grows better." — CZ

CZ also said Bitcoin's design has a privacy flaw, since transactions are "very very easy to track" on the blockchain, which he said weakens some of the sovereign privacy benefits decentralization otherwise provides. He noted no government currently bans holding Bitcoin, but said any government could push such a law through, which would halt the sector's development in that country.