Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture capital firm, has explained how bitcoin could reach $500,000 or even higher price levels in the coming months. During a podcast, Chamath clarified that considering the price performance in the previous halving cycles, bitcoin could reach that level pushed by the adoption of countries deciding to hold it as a hard asset.
VC Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Explains the $500,000 Bitcoin Case: Countries Will Become Dual Currency
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Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya States Bitcoin Might Reach $500,000 and Beyond
Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Social Capital, a VC firm focusing on deep tech, life sciences, and energy transition investments, has explained how bitcoin might reach prices of $500,000 and even more during this cycle.
During the All-in podcast, Palihapitiya detailed that after the reduction of 50% of the bitcoin mining reward, known popularly as the halving, bitcoin had traditionally experienced gains that had been reducing as bitcoin gets more institutionalized. He presented a chart that averaged bitcoin gains after the halving cycles, showing a projection that predicts bitcoin reaching almost $500,000 prices, taking just the numbers reached during the cryptocurrency’s third halving cycle.
An even more bullish target can be reached if, for the same calculation, the historical growth averages for the second and third halving cycles are taken. This scenario foresees bitcoin reaching over a million dollars 18 months after this halving.
Palihapitiya declared that, as explained by former Xapo CEO Wences Casares, the demand for bitcoin will be pushed by the adoption of countries, that will leverage it as a reserve asset. He stated:
There’s an increasing body of countries that will become dual currency and they will look at their local currency and then they will look at bitcoin and they will say both of these two things are needed.
Furthermore, Palihapitiya stressed bitcoin has the possibility of “completely replacing” gold, starting to become something that has “transactional utility for hard assets.” This, concatenated with the dollar debasement worries, might make bitcoin an interesting investment opportunity, Palihapitiya concluded.
In January, he assessed that 2024 would be the year in which bitcoin would cross the chasm, becoming a mainstream financial asset.
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