Rich Dad Poor Dad buys Bitcoin again

Mehab Qureshi

Sun, February 22, 2026 at 11:21 AM GMT+9 3 min read

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I’ve been following Robert Kiyosaki for almost a decade now, to understand why he just loaded up on Bitcoin again.

Back when Rich Dad Poor Dad was being passed around like contraband in office cubicles. I remember my best friend at work,  ready to buy a house purely as an “investment” and stopping mid-process because of Kiyosaki’s philosophy.

That one idea that your home is not an asset if it takes money out of your pocket.

A lot of people (including me) grew up believing in owning the house, leasing the car, climbing the salary ladder, trusting the system to reward patience. That’s the traditional playbook. Buy property. Hold dollars. Contribute to a retirement plan. Let the institutions handle the rest.

Kiyosaki challenged that mindset. And that’s why his timing any asset matters.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad author buys Bitcoin

The Rich Dad Poor Dad author said this week that he picked up another whole Bitcoin at $67,000, arguing that a coming wave of money printing, what he calls “The Big Print”  will eventually lift hard assets.

“Although Bitcoin is crashing I bought one more whole Bitcoin for $67k,” he wrote. “Because the Big Print will begin when the US debt crashes the dollar…When the 21st millionth Bitcoin is mined…. Bitcoin becomes better than gold.”

Let’s start with the obvious. Bitcoin isn’t crashing. You can call it a correction as the price is down 46% from an all-time high of $126,080.

It’s hovering near $68,000. But the good news is that the broader crypto market cap is sitting above $2 trillion. ETFs are trading. Wall Street is involved. This isn’t a panic tape

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The debt bet

To sum up Kiyosaki’s philosophy (based on years of reading his books, listening to his podcasts, and following his lengthy posts) he believes U.S. debt is fundamentally unsustainable, and that policymakers will ultimately respond the only way they historically have through monetary expansion.

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Federal debt sits above $34 trillion. Interest costs are climbing. Fiscal deficits remain elevated. And even this week, markets got a reminder of how fluid policy can be, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s emergency tariff authority under IEEPA, only for a new 10% global tariff to be announced under a different statute hours later.

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His argument is that high-debt systems historically avoid prolonged austerity. When pressure builds, expansion becomes politically easier than contraction.

If that pattern holds again, hard assets tend to benefit.

Why Bitcoin, not just gold?

Kiyosaki has long favored gold and silver. Bitcoin is a newer addition to his playbook.

The appeal is straightforward, its capped supply.

Gold supply grows slowly but still grows. Bitcoin issuance, by contrast, is programmatic and capped at 21 million coins.

Markets have known about it for years. But scarcity narratives tend to matter most when monetary conditions are uncertain.

We’ve seen versions of that before.

During the 2020 pandemic stimulus cycle, Bitcoin rallied from below $4,000 to above $60,000 within a year as global liquidity surged. In 2022, as the Federal Reserve tightened aggressively, Bitcoin retraced sharply, falling to the mid-teens.

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This story was originally published by TheStreet on Feb 21, 2026, where it first appeared in the Economy section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

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