$250 Trillion in Assets Looking for Ideal Store of Value: A Bull Case for Bitcoin

$250 Trillion in Assets Looking for Ideal Store of Value: A Bull Case for Bitcoin
фото показано с : news.bitcoin.com

2020-10-27 21:45

The CEO of Nasdaq-listed billion-dollar company Microstrategy has made a strong bull case for bitcoin. He says there is a $250 trillion ocean of assets looking for the ideal store a value right now and bitcoin is a better store of value than gold or tech stocks, so “a lot of that monetary energy is going to flow from the asset ocean into the crypto pond.”

Comparing Bitcoin to Investing Early in Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon

In a webcast with Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough, aired last week, Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor outlined a highly bullish case for bitcoin’s price. The Nasdaq-listed Microstrategy recently invested $425 million in bitcoin as its primary reserve asset.

Saylor began by explaining that he has always been a big tech investor. “The thing about technology is figuring out the thing that’s going to eat the world. If you’re right, own it, hold it, and wait,” he advised. The CEO gave the example of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, emphasizing repeatedly that it does not matter when you bought those tech stocks. “The truth of the matter is if you’d bought Google, Apple, Amazon, or Facebook at any point between 2010 and 2020 … I think it’s impossible to have lost money at any point for the decade … your investment mistake would be trying to time the market on those things.”

The Microstrategy CEO added: “Bitcoin is the first software network in the history of the world that can pull monetary energy, so these bitcoiners have figured out something that is really a thing of beauty and extraordinary value. They are pulling pure monetary energy on a network.” He elaborated:

If I take $100 million and I put it into bitcoin, it could sit there for a decade like in a battery. It won’t bleed out. You’re not losing 2% to 4% a year and I can put it in the palm of my hand and I can move it around the planet for a few dollars in a few minutes and we have never in the history of the world figured that out.

Bitcoin Is Not So Volatile

One classic objection investors have to investing in bitcoin is its volatility. Speaking on the subject, Saylor said he has been looking at the volatility of different assets over the last three, four, and five months. He looked at 30-year Treasuries, 10-year Treasuries, the NASDAQ, the Russell 2000, gold, silver, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and more. After comparing their volatility to bitcoin, Saylor concluded:

My unscientific view is on every single day at least half of those assets are more volatile than bitcoin. And on a lot of volatile days, I’ve seen 80% to 90% of them be more volatile than bitcoin.

“So I think there’s a historic narrative/belief. People think they know this is volatile but in fact, it’s not looking that volatile to me over the past three months. I don’t think over the next decade it’s going to have the same characteristics of volatility that it had over the last decade,” Saylor said.

The Microstrategy CEO proceeded to discuss how investors are using Apple’s stock as their store of value. “People are literally using Apple’s stock as a store of value because it’s deflationary. Apple is buying it back and they think Apple is not going anywhere and they’re desperate to flee [from] currency.” However, he pointed out that “Apple is more volatile than bitcoin for the past three months.”

Bitcoin Is a Better Store of Value than Apple’s Stock or Gold

Besides Apple’s stock, gold is still investors’ favorite store of value. However, Saylor explained that neither are as good as bitcoin as a store of value.

“The truth is Apple’s stock is not scarce. The executive team can and will eventually print more and if that doesn’t dilute you then they’ve got regulatory risk, competitive risk, [and] execution risk — a lot of moving parts … that’s why they’re not good over the long term,” he detailed. As for gold, he said: “if you put $100 million into gold and the gold miners print 2% to 3% more a year, let’s say 2% more, well, over 100 years you lose 88% of your purchasing power.”

The CEO explained that these stores of value worked in the past because there was no alternative. However, things have changed. “In the year 2020, you have a choice, you have a digital gold,” he declared. “They cannot make any more. Bitcoin miners are the friends of bitcoin owners. They’re not the enemy of bitcoin owners.” He explained that to store $100 million for 100 years, you will lose 85% of it under the best case if you put it in gold. “Under the likely case, you lose it all because the bank will fail, the country will fail, [or] somebody will seize it,” he claimed.

Saylor presented bitcoin as the best solution: “The reason that the bitcoin maximalists … are passionate and religious about this is because for the first time in human history you can take all of your wealth and your life force. You can put it into an asset. You can keep the keys. You can take custody of your million dollars, your hundred thousand dollars. No government, no bank can take it away from you. There’s nobody to tell you you can’t own your life force, and if you have hopes and aspirations for your family, for your religion, for your life, then you have the power to achieve those hopes and aspirations without asking the permission of a bank or a government or politician.”

The Microstrategy CEO then spoke about the trillions of dollars currently in alternative assets that function as stores of value, including gold, technology stocks, and bonds. He proclaimed:

There’s a $250 trillion ocean of assets. They are looking for the ideal store of value right now.

Maintaining that bitcoin is a better store of value than other assets he previously described, he emphasized: “bitcoin is digital gold. It’s better gold than gold and it’s a better store of value than big tech.” He believes that as investors understand this, “a lot of that monetary energy is going to flow from the asset ocean into the crypto pond and everybody that makes the transition is going to benefit.”

Do you agree with Michael Saylor’s vision for bitcoin? Let us know in the comments section below.

The post $250 Trillion in Assets Looking for Ideal Store of Value: A Bull Case for Bitcoin appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024

origin »

Bitcoin (BTC) на Currencies.ru

$ 70915.86 (-0.09%)
Объем 24H $26.804b
Изменеия 24h: 0.16 %, 7d: 4.61 %
Cегодня L: $70824.16 - H: $71243.75
Капитализация $1397.616b Rank 1
Цена в час новости $ 13643.5 (419.78%)

bitcoin store value 250 case trillion looking

bitcoin store → Результатов: 126


Bitcoin can be everything at once; currently it’s best at being a store of value, says Blockstream’s CSO

Bitcoin [BTC], the largest cryptocurrency in the market, has gone from being an electronic cash system to becoming a store of value over the past ten years. The coin has several times been termed as digital gold, with even Grayscale Investments prompting investors to drop gold and be a part of the digital currency revolution […] The post Bitcoin can be everything at once; currently it’s best at being a store of value, says Blockstream’s CSO appeared first on AMBCrypto.

2019-6-14 00:00


Фото:

Bitcoin Cash-Focused Centbee Launches Open Alpha Wallet

There’s a new bitcoin cash (BCH)-focused wallet called Centbee that recently launched its alpha testing version on the Google Play store. The Johannesburg-based Centbee’s wallet is a bit different than most light clients as it offers a simplistic user interface, with plans to provide an in-wallet buy and sell feature, and merchant payments service that […] The post Bitcoin Cash-Focused Centbee Launches Open Alpha Wallet appeared first on Bitcoin News.

2018-7-25 00:25


Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian Shares Thoughts on Crypto & Blockchain Future

Co-Founder of Initialized Capital, Alexis Ohanian Believes “Digital Store of Value Will Be Desirable” One Day In an interview with CNBC during its “Power Lunch Segment”, Co-Founder of Initialized Capital, Alexis Ohanian discusses cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies moving towards the venture capital (VC) sector.

2018-7-25 00:02


Фото:

Crypto Expert Says Bitcoin Can Rise Over Three-Fold As “Digital Gold”

Gold is one of the most valuable assets in the world, with humans historically holding the rare metal as a valuable asset. But with the rise of the internet and cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has become a great gold alternative, a “digital gold” if you may, due to its nature as a limited, divisible and store of […] The post Crypto Expert Says Bitcoin Can Rise Over Three-Fold As “Digital Gold” appeared first on Ethereum World News.

2018-7-21 22:15


Introducing your Gateway to the Internet of Value: How Blockchain.io takes on investors’ favorite worst Crypto dilemma

It is safe to say now that Bitcoin and the Blockchain technology are here to stay. It is very likely that in the near future we will heavily rely on them to store and exchange value; we are confident that many other applications will come up from this groundbreaking invention. In short, the Crypto revolution […]

2018-7-20 02:30


Фото:

Hyperbitcoinization: $100mil Per Coin by 2030 activity

At least one theorist believes the above will happen, and further postulates one hundred million dollars per bitcoin could be in the works as early as 2030. “Bitcoin-induced currency demonetization, or hyperbitcoinization” is what would occur should “any hapless currency” stand “in bitcoin’s path of total world domination. The current store of value talk and

2018-7-8 06:40


Фото:

Tokenize It With Bitcoin! Giacomo Zucco Unveils Lightning Asset Protocol

BHB Network founder and self-confessed Bitcoin maximalist Giacomo Zucco has revealed a Lightning Network-enabled protocol for launching tokenized assets on the Bitcoin blockchain. In Support Of ‘Bitcoin-based Non-Bitcoin Assets’ RGB, “promoted” by the BHB Network, describes itself as “a completely free, open-source, non-profit and community-oriented effort… aimed at the development of standards and best practices to issue, transmit and store ‘Bitcoin-based non-bitcoin assets.

2018-7-5 19:00


Hashbon ICO

Hashbon framework is a universal platform for effective building any applications or smart contracts, that work on top of live public blockchains: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, Monero and others. Framework will allow to store information on several blockchains simultaneously for better reliability in automatic and intellectual way, including deciding which blockchain currently offers better fee for storing KB of data.

2018-7-3 19:57


Фото:

The Central Banks Of Australia And New Zealand Against Cryptocurrencies

The trend of ‘central banks’ talking about cryptocurrencies is warming up once more, with The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) weighing in on the debate. The pair have moved to debunk rumours that they are investigating in establishing their own central bank digital currency, on the basis that they believe such a project would inevitably damage their current banking system.

2018-6-26 17:00


Bitcoin [BTC], Litecoin [LTC], Ether [ETC] now accepted by an Australian pharmacy!

TravelByBit, on June 18th, announced another merchant on board to accept payment in cryptocurrencies. By doing this, TravelByBit introduced a new industry among their list of merchants! Lugarno Pharmacy, a store near Sydney is now accepting cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin [BTC], Litecoin [LTC], Dash [DASH], and Ethereum [ETH] for medications. TravelByBit’s recent Tweet | Source: Twitter […]

2018-6-19 09:02