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The World’s Wealthy Just Confirmed My 2026 Call
The real Davos story wasn’t on the main stage...
Teeka Tiwari
January 28, 2026
In January 2020, I traveled over 4,000 miles from San Juan, Puerto Rico to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
It’s an invite-only gathering of the global elite – heads of state, monarchs, billionaires, and the world’s most powerful CEOs.
The official theme that year was sustainability. The headlines were dominated by keynote speakers like climate activist Greta Thunberg… former U.S. Vice President Al Gore… and the late conservationist Jane Goodall.
But I was there for a different reason: I wanted to hear with my own ears what world leaders were saying about the institutional adoption of crypto.
I first recommended bitcoin in 2016 – long before the newsletter industry caught on.
Back then, critics dismissed it as a scam, a fraud, even a Ponzi scheme. I was called crazy for touching it. My former publisher even threatened to fire me for writing about it.
By the time I flew out to Davos in 2020, the tone had changed.
While the cameras focused on climate activists, I saw something else behind closed doors… The WEF was laying the groundwork for digital money.
It rolled out a Blockchain Deployment Toolkit focused on legal and regulatory issues.
And it expanded the Digital Currency Governance Consortium – a high-level initiative formed to set the rules for stablecoins, cross-border payments, and the new crypto financial system.
Here’s what I wrote in February 2020, a month after returning from Switzerland:
While in Davos, I got to meet a gentleman who runs a multibillion-dollar fund for a family office in Asia.
This was a recurring theme I saw there: A lot of the big investors coming into crypto at this point are actually family offices. And these private offices control huge pools of capital.
Globally, they have hundreds of billions of dollars under management. And they’re very active in the crypto market. They’re starting to put hundreds of millions of dollars into crypto, and we’re starting to see that show up in prices.
In my view, this was the moment blockchain crossed the line from “experimental tech” to legitimate asset class.
At the time, bitcoin traded below $8,000. The entire crypto market was just north of $200 billion. Since that trip, bitcoin has traded as high as $126,000, and the total market has reached as much as $4.2 trillion.
I didn’t travel to Davos this year, but I kept up with the news that came out of the forum. And I saw the exact same pattern unfold that I saw there six years ago… this time in a new opportunity.
Friends, the last time I felt this level of conviction in my research, I recommended bitcoin at around $400-and-change in 2016… And before that, Nvidia at a split-adjusted price of 80 cents in 2015 – before they shot up as much as 29,477% and 25,851%, respectively.