Bitcoin lacks market integrity, says former Trump economic adviser

Bitcoin lacks market integrity, says former Trump economic adviser

“For all the reasons it’s a strong developing asset class, it may fail,” said the former Goldman Sachs president. Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs and former chief economic adviser to Donald Trump, believes that Bitcoin may not hold long-term prospects for investors. In an interview with Bloomberg released today, Cohn said that the crypto asset “lacks some of the basic integrity of a real market” due to its lack of transparency. He said that investors might question a system “that does not have an audit trail.”“For all the reasons it’s a strong developing asset class, it....


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