Billionaire investor John Paulson says crypto has ‘no intrinsic value’
The billionaire subprime short-trader in the 2008 financial crash said that digital assets have a “limited supply of nothing.” Speaking in a recent interview, subprime short investor and billionaire portfolio manager John Paulson criticized the volatile nature of digital assets, while advocating for investments in traditional safe-havens such as gold.The co-founder of Paulson & Co, a New York-based firm launched in 1994, Paulson was a historic beneficiary from the U.S. housing financial market collapse of 2008 after placing a legendary successful short position.However, Paulson recently....
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“Bitcoin is a bubble” is something that has been thrown around a lot ever since the last bull run began in 2017. A lot of prominent personalities in the finance industry took this stand when the digital asset hit its then all-time high of $19K. The bear market that followed seemed to validate this for the next few years. Then the bull run of 2020 started and a lot of those sentiments were put on the back burner. But now, John Paulson has come to hit the market with the same thing. Related Reading | Here’s How Much Your $1,200 Stimulus Check Would Be Worth In Various Cryptocurrencies....
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, famed for making a fortune betting against the U.S. housing market, says that cryptocurrencies are a bubble that will prove to be “worthless.” While he sees unlimited downside to crypto, he will not short bitcoin, however. “Even though I could be right over the long term, in the short term, I’d be wiped out,” he explained.
Famous Investor John Paulson Predicts Crypto Will Be Worthless
John Paulson, the president and portfolio manager of U.S. investment firm Paulson & Co., is an American billionaire....
The criticism that bitcoin has no “intrinsic value” is a misunderstanding of the very term. In fact, Bitcoin is intrinsic value.
American billionaire investor, and the vice-chairman of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, has once again lashed at the crypto community. Munger is known for his anti-crypto sentiments, and he never hesitates to let his stance known. A few years ago, the billionaire announced his disdain for Bitcoin, referring to it as a “turd,” and […]
There is no shared opinion on whether bitcoins have intrinsic value or not. Some conservative-minded people believe that intrinsic value may only be possessed by seizable assets, although this obviously disregards such inseparable attributes of today’s realities as software or internet. Others assume that intrinsic value is the feature of such commodities as gold or silver because what matters is the way they are perceived and the history they have. The classic example, however, proves that a starving person would definitely attach more intrinsic value to a loaf of bread than to a piece of....