Guggenheim CIO Says Bitcoin May Finally Climb to $600,000

Scott Minerd, chief funding officer of the multi-billion greenback funding agency Guggenheim Companions, has revised his earlier prediction for bitcoin’s long-term worth potential.

In an interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley on Tuesday, Minerd mentioned, based mostly on Guggenheim’s elementary analysis, he believes bitcoin might finally climb as excessive as $600,000 per bitcoin.

Minerd mentioned the agency has been taking a look at bitcoin for nearly 10 years and beforehand the dimensions of the market “simply wasn’t sufficiently big to justify institutional cash.”

Nevertheless, as the entire market cap of bitcoin bought greater – across the time bitcoin’s worth handed $10,000 – it began to look “very attention-grabbing.”

“In the event you think about the availability of bitcoin relative … to the availability of gold on this planet, and what the entire worth of gold is, if bitcoin have been to go to these sorts of numbers, you’d be speaking about $400,000 to $600,000 per bitcoin,” he mentioned.

Nevertheless, the cryptocurrency’s fast rise in simply weeks from $20,000 to $40,000 “smacks of short-term hypothesis,” he mentioned. Additional, the institutional ranges of market participation, whereas rising, aren’t but sufficiently big to help present worth ranges.

But, “Cryptocurrency has come into the realm of respectability and can proceed to develop into increasingly necessary within the world economic system,” Minerd mentioned.