Last updated Nov 29, 2025
Prediction
Friedberg
economymarkets
Within roughly 15 years of 2021 (by around 2036), the U.S. dollar will cease to be the sole global reserve currency, and a plausible positive scenario is that Bitcoin becomes either the primary or an unofficial global reserve currency.
Stanley Druckenmiller thinks that the next 15 years the US dollar will no longer be the world's reserve currency. Well what's going to replace it. The positive black swan would be that Bitcoin becomes, if not the a world reserve currency, an unofficial world reserve currency.View on YouTube
Explanation

The prediction specifies a ~15‑year horizon from 2021 (i.e., until around 2036). As of late 2025, that window is far from over, so the outcome cannot yet be determined.

Current evidence:

  1. U.S. dollar’s reserve status: IMF COFER data and mainstream coverage show the U.S. dollar is still the dominant global reserve currency, with roughly 57–58% of disclosed foreign‑exchange reserves at the end of 2024 and in early 2025. Other major currencies (euro, yen, pound, renminbi) collectively make up much of the balance, but none has displaced the dollar; the system is gradually diversifying but remains dollar‑centric. (reuters.com) This means the first part of the prediction (dollar no longer the world’s reserve currency) has not yet come true, but it also has not been falsified because the deadline is 2036.

  2. Bitcoin as (un)official reserve currency: Central banks and governments hold some Bitcoin, but on a very small scale relative to FX reserves and gold. Current estimates put government/sovereign holdings around a few hundred thousand BTC (roughly 2–3% of supply), largely from law‑enforcement seizures or small policy experiments (e.g., El Salvador, Bhutan, Argentina), not from broad, coordinated central‑bank reserve strategies. (mexc.fm) In 2025 the U.S. did create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve using seized coins, and several countries are exploring Bitcoin in their reserve mix, but Bitcoin is still far from being the primary or widely recognized unofficial global reserve currency; the role remains speculative and marginal versus the dollar, euro, and gold. (chaincatcher.com)

Because:

  • The time horizon (to ~2036) has not elapsed, and
  • The predicted shift could still occur in the remaining years,

the correct classification as of November 2025 is "inconclusive" (too early to tell) rather than right or wrong.