Mark Mobius, founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners claims bitcoin’s emergence will further drive investors to gold. | Source: REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
By CCN Markets: Mark Mobius, the legendary emerging-markets investor and founder of Mobius Capital Partners, referred to bitcoin as a “psycho-currency” on Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg.
He claimed the rise of “faith-based” cyber-currencies would ultimately push investors towards hard assets like gold.
“You have all these new currencies coming into play. I call them psycho-currencies because it’s a matter of faith whether you believe in bitcoin or any of the other cyber currencies. And I think with the rise of that, there’s going to be a demand for real hard assets and that includes gold because gold can play a role not only as an asset, but as a currency.”
Mark Mobius remains skeptical of ‘psycho-currencies’ like bitcoin but urges investors to buy gold. Source: Reuters
Mobius accidentally makes the case for bitcoin
Although he shrugged off bitcoin, he urged investors to load up on gold as central banks prepare to ramp up the monetary printing press.
“I think you have to be buying [gold] at any level, frankly. Gold long term prospect is up, up, and up. The reason why I say that is money supply is up, up, and up. The efforts by central banks to lower interest rates, they’re going to be printing like crazy.”
In his analysis, Mobius touches on bitcoin’s raison d’être. Central banks around the world are indiscriminately increasing the money supply, while bitcoin remains hard-capped and limited. BTC is a scarce asset and hard money. The antithesis of central bank printing presses.
In a roundabout way, Mobius just made the case for bitcoin.
Mobius softening on crypto?
Mobius may not be ready to go all-in on BTC yet, but his stance has softened in the last 18 months. In 2018, he called bitcoin a “fraud” that made the tulip mania look bad.
“I think bitcoin is a real fraud, I really do. The first thing I do is ask people ‘can you explain it to me? Who is running it? Who is controlling it?’ And nobody can.”
Top investor Mark Mobius weighs in on the outlook for bitcoin #TheYearAhead https://t.co/vECJChXWKW pic.twitter.com/HDEyu0WAG4
— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) December 6, 2017
Earlier this year, his rhetoric changed slightly, affirming that bitcoin probably wasn’t going anywhere.
“There’s definitely a desire among people around the world to be able to transfer money easily and confidentially. That is really the backing to bitcoin and other currencies of that type. So I believe it’s going to be alive and well.”
Mark Mobius may not be a bitcoin buyer yet, but he knows it’s here to stay.
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