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Why I’m Buying Crypto Here

Why I’m Buying Crypto Here

James Altucher

Posted November 21, 2025

James Altucher

I’ve lived through every absurd rise and fall this space has thrown at us.

When I first went on CNBC in 2013 to tell people to buy Bitcoin, they laughed.

In 2017, I wrote checks into FIL and ZEC before anyone could even explain the word “tokenomics.”

And at these levels? I’m buying.

Aggressively.

Why? Because the underlying numbers aren’t just good…

They’re insane.

The Numbers

Stablecoin volume has gone from $2.5 trillion in 2020 to $27.6 trillion in 2024 to $50 trillion this year.

For perspective: Visa—the global payments giant—is doing $15 trillion. Crypto rails are already bigger. No one’s talking about it.

Tokenized stocks? There was zero volume five years ago. This year: $1 trillion.

Still less than 1% of global stock-market volume—which means it hasn’t even started.

Tokenization of real assets is exploding. In 2020, less than $1 billion existed on-chain. In 2025: $60 billion. By 2030: $30 trillion.

This is a new operating system for global finance. Every tokenization infrastructure project is sitting on a decade-long tailwind.

DeFi? Same story. $100 billion in 2020. $2.5 trillion in 2024. $5 trillion this year. Because traders prefer faster, cheaper, 24/7 markets—and DeFi doesn’t close.

Countries are joining in. Strategic crypto reserves went from just a couple back in 2020 to 27 countries today.

And the biggest one: users.

The Path to 1 Billion

100 million people used crypto in 2020.

560 million by 2024.

We’ll hit 860 million this year and crack one billion next year.

That reminds me of the internet’s real takeoff.

It wasn’t 1995.

It wasn’t the bubble of 2000. The true explosion started in 2005—the moment global internet users crossed a billion. Crypto hits that milestone in months.

This isn’t the end of the cycle.

It’s inning one in a new financial operating system being rewritten in real time.

That’s why I’m buying.

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