‘Black Swan’ author calls bitcoin a ‘gimmick’ and a ‘game,’ says it resembles a Ponzi scheme

CNBC2021-04-23

KEY POINTS “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb ripped bitcoin as a “gimmick” that’s too volatile to be a currency and an unsafe hedge against inflation. “Basically, there’s no connection between ...

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Boo2020
2021-04-25
Boo2020
What about the limited supply of btc?? N the recognition And trust that everyone has on btc.
AhKeong
2021-04-25
AhKeong
Regardless how you put it.... The world is buying and playing this game... The only chance we have to be part of it is to rock them down to a much lower price that we can buy in to gain from it.
Cyou2
2021-04-25
Cyou2
Ok
- Lzoakz:
  Ok
JaydenSee
2021-04-25
JaydenSee
Pls like and comments
- JaydenSee:
  [财迷]
- EV8:
  ??
Bronnie
2021-04-25
Bronnie
Nah
selwyn
2021-04-25
selwyn
Not sure about Ponzi but it is highly speculative
- selwyn:
  [微笑]
- lfc:
  true

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Bitcoin, which has its supply capped at 21 million tokens, has been described as “digital gold.”\n“It’s easily transportable and can be sent anywhere in the world if you have a smartphone so it’s a much better version, as a store of value, than gold,” famed value investor Bill Miller told CNBC earlier this week.\n“With bitcoin, volatility is the price you pay for performance,” added Miller, who has also previously contended bitcoin grows less risky as adoption and its price increases.\nIndeed, the price of bitcoin has soared higher in recent months — rising from under $11,000 per unit as recently as October to an all-time high of nearly $65,000 last week. Increased institutional adoption has been cited as one factor in its climb.\nIn keeping with its propensity for wild price swings, bitcoin has tumbled in the days since, ultimately breaking below $50,000 per token earlier Friday, a 23% drop in a little more than a week. However, the price has still risen more than 70% year to date,according to Coindesk.\nBitcoin has received long-term price targets between $400,000 and $600,000 per token from some people in the investment community, including Guggenheim Partners’Scott Minerd; others have projected even higher than that.\nTaleb suggested bitcoin’s price is not what informs his now-critical view, saying “bitcoin could go to $1 million” and it wouldn’t change his argument. “These gimmicks, you have bitcoin today. You may have another one tomorrow. They come and go, and there’s no systematic link between them and the claims they make,” he added.\nInvestors who are worried about inflation would be better off purchasing property than investing in bitcoin, Taleb said. “If you want to hedge against inflation, buy a piece of land. Grow, I don’t know, olives on it. You’ll have olive oil. 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