Bitcoin might “simply” attain $100,000 by 2022, says Anthony Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci, founding father of $9.2 billion hedge fund SkyBridge Capital who additionally served (albeit briefly) as communications director within the Trump administration, stated that Bitcoin (BTC) might “simply commerce” at $100,000 inside a yr, Forbes reported at present.

“You’re going to be benchmarked off of Bitcoin, that means in your mosaic of shares and bonds and alternate options and gold, there’ll be a couple of proportion factors associated to digital forex,” stated Scaramucci, including, “And since Bitcoin is the winner of that battle, it’ll possible be Bitcoin. So for those who’re not going to be an investor in Bitcoin you’re successfully quick Bitcoin.”

Final December, Scaramucci’s fund itself filed a Regulation D kind with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee for a crypto fund. The SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund L.P. opened to traders in January, with SkyBridge initially placing $25 million of its capital in it.

“One of many issues we tried to do is democratize the hedge fund business and Bitcoin remains to be considerably troublesome to purchase,” Scaramucci stated on the time, including, “So, we expect there’s a really giant transfer for Bitcoin over the subsequent 5 to 10 years.”

At this time, SkyBridge’s Bitcoin fund is “heading in the direction of $100 million” in belongings below its administration, Scaramucci stated, whereas there’s “a really large future” in entrance of Bitcoin. In complete, SkyBridge at the moment holds roughly $500 million in Bitcoin throughout its investments.

“My efficiency was smashed final yr final March on account of the pandemic. The SkyBridge Collection G fund is up 33% since April 1, and a few of that frankly has been the transfer in Bitcoin that we took benefit of within the fourth quarter of final yr,” Scaramucci added.

Nonetheless, he additionally famous that Bitcoin remains to be a unstable asset that’s vulnerable to unpredictable value actions.

“A few of what you’re seeing this week is brief squeeze, very akin to what would have occurred to Tesla, the place the non-believers in Tesla have been out of their shorts, identical factor type of taking place right here to Bitcoin,” he stated.

As CryptoSlate reported, Elon Musk’s tech firm Tesla revealed its $1.5 billion funding in Bitcoin on Monday.

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