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Morgan Creek Capital Managementâs CEO predicted Bitcoin will soon rival gold by monetary value.
Morgan Creek Capital Management founder and CEO Mark Yusko believes Bitcoinâs next market cycle could see the asset rival gold by market capitalization and trade for more than $200,000.
While appearing on CNBCâs Trading Nation on Sunday, Yusko compared the rapid adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) to the growth of FAANG companies â Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
âThis is a network, and networks grow in an exponential way. This is the fastest network in history to a trillion dollars of value, right on the heels of the FAANGs that took, you know, 15 to 20 years depending on which one you look at.â
Yuskoâs price prediction is based on his assumption that Bitcoin will rival gold by âmonetary valueâ â a concept derived from the gold standard, where a country's currency or fiat has a value directly linked to gold. He stated: âIf goldâs monetary value is $4 trillion, then digital gold should move up to that total.â
With BTC changing hands for roughly $59,000 and Bitcoinâs market cap at roughly $1.1 trillion at the time of writing, Yuskoâs prediction suggests Bitcoin could trade for at least $235,000 in the future.
The investment manager predicted Bitcoin will become the base-layer protocol for the Internet of Value, likening Bitcoin to Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP â the standard protocol allowing computers to connect and share data across the internet.
When asked about other protocols or crypto assets such as Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE) â which have all reached all-time highs over the past couple of days â he stated there is room for more. However, not a fan of DOGE, Yusko added:
âThere are thousands of coins, and DOGE is in that category that really are useless. Theyâre just utility tokens that have no underlying value or use case, and theyâll eventually disappear.â
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading 1.7% higher on the day at $59,200, Ether was at an all-time high above $4,000, but DOGE had crashed after tagging new record highs, following a mention from Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live.
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