Earlier, CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon had also criticised
the cryptocurrency and had termed it as a 'fraud'
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater
Associates, the world's largest hedge fund firm has said that Bitcoin is just a
bubble. The American investor stated that cryptocurrencies such as the Bitcoin
meet his firm’s criteria for being termed a market bubble.
According to Dalio,
cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have several limitations that affect its
liquidity. He was quoted in a report by CNBC saying that “…you can't make much
transactions in it (Bitcoin). You can't spend it very easily…It's not an
effective storehold of wealth because it has volatility to it, unlike
gold,…Bitcoin is a highly speculative market. Bitcoin is a bubble."
The billionaire investor
maintains that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin fail to perform the two roles that
are essential for any valid currency i.e. ease of transactions as a medium of
exchange and being a "storehold of wealth."
Dalio said that while the idea
may work conceptually, lack of transactions and high volume of speculations
surrounding it will make Bitcoin a failure in the long term.
Dalio is not the only market guru
to lash out against the Bitcoin. Earlier, CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon had also
criticised the cryptocurrency and had termed it as a ‘fraud.’
The news is crucial for India,
which is considering its own cryptocurrency backed by the RBI.
The US Fed has also come up with
the idea of a Fedcoin. Similarly, a consortium of Canadian private banks is
already exploring the possibility of clearing and settling large value payments
using blockchain using a token called CAD-coin.
In an earlier conversation with
Moneycontrol, Sandeep Goenka, COO and co-founder of Zebpay, India’s largest
bitcoin exchange had said that some experts scrutinize the digital currency,
Bitcoin, as it is deregulated and maintains the anonymity of its holders, but
they do not talk much about the benefits one can reap from the underlying
software – blockchain -- that empowers
it.
Source - moneycontrol.com
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