Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya recently opined that Bitcoin had “effectively replaced” gold at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference:
I can pretty confidently say that bitcoin has replaced gold, and it will continue to do so.
Palihapitiya expects Bitcoin’s market cap to continue growing. The billionaire, however, declined to make a specific price prediction during his conversation with CNBC’s Scott Wapner.
Back in January, the former Facebook executive forecasted that Bitcoin could reach $200,000, but he also said that it would take the flagship cryptocurrency up to 10 years in order to get there:
Where is it going? It’s probably going to $100,000 to $150,000, then to $200,000.
Palihapitiya also said that he was “very concerned” about inflation. He’s placing his bets on hyper-growth companies, cash flow businesses and uncorrelated assets of the likes of Bitcoin.
During the most recent interview, Palihapitiya said that crypto could become “very big”:
I'm a huge intellectual bull. It could get very big. We all need to pay attention to it.
Coin | Change(%) | Price | Volume (24h) |
---|---|---|---|
Bitcoin (BTC) | 3.71 | $72,084.86 | $45.5B |
Ethereum (ETH) | 3.43 | $4,038.91 | $20.8B |
XRP (XRP) | 18.52 | $0.727106 | $4.4B |
Solana (SOL) | 1.58 | $147.242060 | $3.8B |
Binance Coin (BNB) | -2.22 | $519.52 | $3.0B |
USD Coin (USDC) | 0.03 | $0.999697 | $2.4B |
Dogecoin (DOGE) | 0.96 | $0.174374 | $2.1B |
Shiba Inu (SHIB) | -2.92 | $0.000033 | $1.7B |
Floki Inu (FLOKI) | -7.67 | $0.000267 | $1.3B |
Avalanche (AVAX) | 13.16 | $47.596296 | $1.2B |