Drake mentions Bitcoin in new song 'What Did I Miss?'

Musical creator Drake made a lyrical notation to Bitcoin (BTC) successful a caller opus released connected Saturday titled "What Did I Miss?"

The hip-hop creator antecedently wagered $1 cardinal successful BTC connected the result of the 2022 Super Bowl, the title American shot game, betwixt the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams.

Drake's notation to Bitcoin, and the hallmark volatility of the supply-capped asset, appears successful the archetypal verse of the song:

"I look astatine this crap similar a BTC, could beryllium down this week, past I'm up adjacent week. I don't springiness a fuck if you emotion me. I don't springiness a fuck if you similar me. Askin' maine 'How did it feel?' Can't accidental it didn't astonishment me."

References to Bitcoin successful songs, long-running tv shows, and different fashionable creation forms awesome the integer plus is increasing successful popularity, arsenic it breaks into mainstream civilization and inches toward wide adoption.

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When volition Bitcoin wide adoption yet happen?

In 2022, Bitcoin mining hardware supplier Blockware predicted that global adoption would deed 10% by 2030. The institution based its forecast connected the adoption curve of erstwhile paradigm-shifting technologies including automobiles, electricity, and the Internet.

River, a BTC fiscal services company, released a report successful March 2025 showing that astir 4% of the planetary colonisation holds BTC, and the integer currency has grown to lone 1% of its full addressable market.

The study besides recovered that developed nations tended to person higher rates of adoption than processing countries.

Bitcoin’s full addressable market. Source: River

Institutional Bitcoin adoption has been a large taxable of the existent marketplace cycle, with companies similar Strategy and Metaplanet reorienting themselves to go Bitcoin treasury companies.

Other institutions person taken connected tiny amounts of Bitcoin to support their firm reserves from inflation, hedge against geopolitical risks, and support against the fragmentation created by de-globalization.

Bitcoin concern vehicles, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), person been large drivers of institutional and retail vulnerability to Bitcoin, which region the method obstruction to introduction of self-custody and onchain transactions.

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