Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro Sees Bitcoin as ‘Exponential Gold’ on Store of Value Team

Fidelity Investments’ Director of Global Macro sees bitcoin as “exponential gold” and “an aspiring player on the store of value team.” According to his analysis, bitcoin’s price is “driven primarily by the growth in its network, which is in turn driven by bitcoin’s unique scarcity feature, as well as the monetary and fiscal policy cycle, … Read more

Mexican Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Doubles Down on Bitcoin, Advises Using It as Inflation Hedge

Ricardo Salinas, the third wealthiest man in Mexico, has recently doubled down on his proposal to use Bitcoin as a reserve asset. On social media, Salinas defended the role of Bitcoin as an inflation hedge, commenting on a post that presented inflation as a hidden tax on fiat money and advised his followers to purchase … Read more

Skybridge Founder: It Pays to Be Long Bitcoin — BTC Will Be Inflation Hedge and Store of Value as It Scales

Skybridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci firmly believes that bitcoin will be both an inflation hedge and a store of value as the cryptocurrency scales. He emphasized that bitcoin is “still an early stage technical asset that will trade like other risk assets until it exceeds a billion users.” Scaramucci Doubles Down on Bitcoin as Inflation … Read more

IMF Says Zimbabwe Gold-Backed Digital Currency a Potential Threat to Financial Stability

The International Monetary Fund has urged Zimbabwean authorities to weigh the benefits versus risks of issuing a gold-backed digital currency. Instead of using gold-backed digital currency to limit the demand for the greenback, the global lender said monetary authorities should consider liberalizing the foreign exchange market. Risks to Macroeconomic and Financial Stability The International Monetary … Read more

Zimbabwe’s De-Dollarization: Central Bank to Issue Gold-Backed Digital Currency in Early May

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said it will start issuing gold-backed digital tokens on May 8. The first phase of the launch will see the digital tokens being issued for “investment purposes with a vesting period of 180 days.” The RBZ also revealed that the gold-backed digital tokens “would be used both as … Read more

2023’s Bitcoin Obituaries: Bitcoin Defies 6 Death Predictions With 80% Price Increase Since End of 2022

It’s been more than 100 days since the end of 2022, and the price of bitcoin has risen more than 80% since then. Over the past 30 days, bitcoin has increased by more than 45% against the U.S. dollar. Despite its recovery this year, after a long crypto winter in the previous year, the Bitcoin … Read more