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“I’m nonetheless attempting to determine how Bitcoin behaves,” Solomon opined. “I personal just a little Bitcoin, little or no.”
Solomon described himself as a Bitcoin observer, noting that he continues to check the elements driving its worth actions. He additionally acknowledged on Wednesday that he’s not a “nice Bitcoin prognosticator.”
Regardless of Goldman Sachs’ conservative stance on digital belongings, Solomon famous that the financial institution’s management acknowledges cryptocurrencies as a key part of a broader structural transformation within the monetary system.
Whereas friends, together with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, have expanded their presence in digital belongings, Goldman Sachs’ participation has remained comparatively restrained. Solomon attributed this primarily to regulatory hurdles.
 
Solomon quipped that “till 10 minutes in the past, the regulatory construction was extraordinarily prohibitive,” signaling how restrictive the atmosphere had been. He famous that as regulators open the door for deeper business participation, Goldman Sachs could revisit its method to digital belongings.
He criticized the financial affect of extreme regulation. “If you burden this method with extreme regulation, you begin to extract capital,” the banking guru acknowledged. “That completely occurred within the final 5 years.”
From Bitcoin Skeptic To Proprietor
Notably, Solomon has beforehand characterised crypto as speculative. In a July 2024 interview with CNBC, he advised viewers that he didn’t see a transparent use case for Bitcoin.
In January 2025, Solomon emphasized that Goldman Sachs couldn’t personal, maintain on its steadiness sheet, or in any other case interact instantly with Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies — a stance he mentioned throughout his remarks on Wednesday started to shift “very not too long ago”.
Though Solomon personally holds solely a small quantity of BTC, Goldman Sachs has established vital institutional publicity to crypto by means of exchange-traded merchandise. By the shut of 2025, the financial institution held around $1 billion in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, together with $260 million in Solana and XRP ETFs mixed.
