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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones thinks Bitcoin is winning the race against gold, according to an interview on Wednesday with CNBC. Â
Host Andrew Ross Sorkin reminded the billionaire American investorâwhose company controls close to $40 billion in assets under managementâthat when he last appeared on the show, back in June, Tudor Jones had called Bitcoin a hedge against inflation.Â
Tudor Jones doubled down on his earlier comments today, replying: âBitcoin would be a great hedge. Crypto would be a great inflation hedge.âÂ
Sorkin then turned to Bitcoinâs recent explosive price performance, asking: âIs it still a hedge at these prices?â
âListen, Iâve got crypto in single digits in my portfolio. I have a small trading position at our fund. I do think weâre moving into an increasingly digitized world,â said Jones. âClearly thereâs a place for crypto and clearly itâs winning the race against gold at the moment. So yes, I think it would be a very good inflation hedge. It would be my preferred one over gold at the moment.â
Bitcoin⊠A portfolio diversifier?
When Jones last locked horns with Sorkin on Squawk Box, the investor told CNBC he recommends a 5% position in Bitcoin, adding that he likes âBitcoin as a portfolio diversifier.â
Back then, the Tudor CIO described his position as a âdefensive position for myself personally, and my family, that I donât even look at anymore.âÂ
But, he tempered his enthusiasm by adding his concerns about Bitcoin miningâs carbon footprint.Â
âIf I was king of the world, Iâd ban Bitcoin mining just because of the environmental impact, and then make the ecosystem figure out a way to do it without expanding the supply any more at all.âÂ
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Tudor Jones is one of many executives at large investment companies who are now encouraging clients to diversify their portfolios with crypto.Â
Back in January, Guggenheim CIO Scott Minerd, whose firm stewards $325 billion, gave Bitcoin a $400,000 price projection and admitted that some of Guggenheimâs private funds had already bought it.Â
Rick Rieder, CIO of the worldâs largest asset manager BlackRock, which controls over $9 trillion in assets as of June this year, said in February that the company was âstarting to dabbleâ in Bitcoin.Â
By the end of summer, the SEC published a filing revealing that BlackRock had invested in two U.S.-based Bitcoin mining firms.Â
Today, Bitcoin picked up its bull run, hitting a new all-time high of $66,812, according to CoinGecko. The record comes hot on the heels of ProShares launching its Bitcoin futures ETF on the NYSE yesterday.
No wonder then, that CIOs like Paul Tudor Jones, Scott Minerd, and Rick Rieder are all watching, eagle-eyed.Â
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