In 2024, Vanguard’s CEO said we will never offer a #Bitcoin ETF. We will not change our mind. In December 2025, they changed their mind, Vanguard’s Bitcoin ETF crossed $1 billion in volume in the first 30 minutes. This matters because when a firm that manages $11 trillion and serves 50 million investors reverses course, it signals something bigger than a product launch. It is a capitulation. An institutional admission that the old assumptions about money, inflation, and store of value have cracked. This is not about crypto hype. It is about the monetary system being forced into transparency by scarcity it can no longer ignore. If the most conservative institution in finance just validated Bitcoin, the question is not what happens next. It is whether you are prepared for the world that follows.