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A âwell-known cryptocurrency expertâ has asked for a bet with Berkshire Hathaway that the price of a bitcoin will top the notorious crypto skepticâs share price by 2023.Â
Bitcoin Bet: 5 Years, $1.2 Billion
Announcing the pending deal on Twitter, William Hill Australia CEO Tom Waterhouse said the unnamed investor wishes to bet 8.5 million AUD (6.3 million USD) â standing to net $1.2 billion if proven right. âHave put him in touch with large syndicate â hope he can get set!â Waterhouse added.
Big Bet: Well known Crypto expert has just requested a bet of $8.5m AUD to win $1.2bn that a Bitcoin will exceed the price of a Berkshire Hathaway share (c.$280k) by 2023. Have put him in touch with large syndicate â hope he can get set! pic.twitter.com/C20AHzH2k9
â Tom Waterhouse (@tomwaterhouse) July 11, 2018
As the Berkshire Hathawayâs shares currently trade around 288,000 USD each (390,000 AUD), the bet implies a similar level of Bitcoin growth to that forecast by parties including the highly-bullish Tim Draper and John McAfee. Draper maintains that BTC/USD will hit $250,000 by 2022, while McAfeeâs notorious bet with himself and his own manhood still stands with stakes set at $1 million per coin by 2020.
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Berkshire has made a name for itself within the cryptocurrency industry and beyond this year with a series of highly-critical sound bites about Bitcoin and related assets. In particular, president Warren Buffett and vice-president Charlie Munger have been infamously scornful of Bitcoin â referring to it variously as âasinine,â âturds,â and like âtrading harvested baby brains.â
In May, Buffettâs bearishness was joined by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates when he told CNBC that Bitcoin was a ânonproductive asset,â explaining:
When youâre buying non-productive assets, all youâre counting on is the next person is going to pay you more because theyâre even more excited about another next person coming along.
âItâs kind of a pure âgreater fool theoryâ type of investment,â Gates had added, while somewhat contradictorily saying he âwould shortâ Bitcoin âif there was an easy way to do it.â
What do you think about the Berkshire Hathaway Bitcoin bet? Let us know in the comments below!Â
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