Why Chamath Is Wrong About Inflation
Recent comments from Chamath Palihapitiya indicate that he doesn’t understand how inflation or monetary sovereignty really work.While billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya has been an early, vocal proponent of Bitcoin for nearly a decade now, his grasp of Bitcoin's ethos seems to be fraying. Setting aside his recent snafu with Bitcoin veteran and advocate Surfer Jim, Chamath doesn't seem to understand principles of inflation, wealth inequality or their historical context.When Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the Great Society programs of the ’60s to alleviate poverty and elevate the general well being....
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Former Facebook and AOL executive Chamath Palihapitiya has updated his projection on wallet downloads in 2014. In January, Palihapitiya, who is one of the largest individual owners of bitcoin, had predicted 11.5 million wallet downloads, but after the bitcoin price stabilised below $500 in the first quarter of the year, he has readjusted his forecast to 7.3 million. He shared this information via a tweet last night: If you are wondering why USD/BTC is depressed, here is our internal projection of wallets thru EOY 2014... pic.twitter.com/Fh23kFBolw. - Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) April....
Virgin Galactic’s chairman and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, says bitcoin has effectively replaced gold. Having predicted that the price of the cryptocurrency would hit $200,000, the executive said bitcoin’s “market cap is just going to grow.”
Palihapitiya: ‘I Can Pretty Confidently Say That Bitcoin Has Effectively Replaced Gold’
Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya talked about bitcoin in an interview with CNBC at the Delivering Alpha Conference last week. The billionaire executive is also the founder and CEO of....
Whenever a bit of bad news hits the Bitcoin community, there’s always at least one individual who pops up and claims that “this is actually good news.” In the case of the IRS ruling on Bitcoin, that lone individual is Chamath Palihapitiya. Chamath is a well-respected former Facebook executive who doesn’t hold back his excitement when it comes to the possibilities created by Bitcoin. When you combine all of the holdings of all the different investment vehicles controlled by Palihapitiya, you get just under 100,000 bitcoins. While there have actually been a few others who have simply stated....