BY Bhushan Akolkar - November 22, 2017 (www.coinspeaker.com)
Renowned Bitcoin investor and crypto-hedge-fund manager, Mike Novogratz believes that Bitcoin can touch $10000 by the end of this year.
Legendary hedge fund manager and a billionaire trader – Michael Novogratz – is yet again seen pumping confidence in Bitcoin investors with his recent prediction.
It was just last month in October when Novogratz predicted Bitcoin to touch $10,000 in a time-frame of six months from then i.e. possibly my April 2018. However, these predictions were made before the announcement of Bitcoin-futures contract by CME group which catapulted Bitcoin prices to an unprecedented rally from over $5,500 to $8,000.
Now, in his recent interview with Bloomberg, Novogratz seemed to have turned more bullish than he was a month earlier and has reduced the time-frame of his previous to the end of this year. This means that as per Novogratz Bitcoin prices could touch $10,000 by this year-end.
Novogratz compared Bitcoin to an asset like gold calling it as the new ‘digital gold’ stating that “gold has value solely because people say it has value; bitcoin is built on an amazing technology, there’s a limited supply of it.
This whole revolution came out of a breakdown in trust in the 2008 crisis.” In addition to this, Novogratz also believes that the second-most popular cryptocurrency Ethereum will also surge considerably and trade above $500 by the year-end.
Mike Novogratz is very bullish on the future of Bitcoins and has established a $500 million Galaxy Digital Assets Fund which is the biggest-of-its-kind crypto-hedge-fund. The fund will focus on investing in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space looking to its revolutionary applications and a great future potential.
Novogratz’s hedge-fund has already started active investments in the blockchain space with its first investment in Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) which is a decentralized blockchain platform for the development of secure and transparent online in-game virtual item exchanges.
Following Novogratz’s comments, Bitcoin prices were seen shooting up again above $8300 after the prices fell by over 5.4% on yesterday’s news of $31 million worth Tether tokens getting stolen. Novogratz comments however instilled back the lost optimism in the market. It has to be noted though that Bitcoin has witnessed quite a bumpy ride in the past month with a huge volatility and price fluctuation.
According to CoinMarketCap, currently, it is trading at $8253.41 and is seen to be consolidating there. Commenting on the latest price fluctuations in Bitcoin prices, Novogratz said: “We’re in the second or third inning. Because prices have moved so far people are nervous. You made a whole lot of money, there’s news, so you want to book your profit and get out.”
The ambitious launch of $500 million worth crypto-hedge-fund marks Novogratz comeback as a prominent investor after suffering major losses at Fortress Investment Group LLC. Novogratz, who was away from Wall Street for over two years is back in action and is quite optimistic about the new blockchain revolution and the world of virtual digital currencies.
However, many of his peers from the Wall Street are quite skeptical about cryptocurrencies with some few prominent personalities like Jamie Dimon even calling Bitcoin as a big “fraud”. Neil Dwane of Allianz Global Investors said it’s a “scam for criminals around the world,” while Larry Fink of BlackRock Inc. said Bitcoin to be the best tool for money laundering activities.
Quickly pointing out to all his critics, Novogratz who is currently 52 said: “all of those guys are over 60 and I’m not. There’s some truth to that in that it’s difficult for someone who didn’t grow up in a digital world to understand that we’re moving into a digital world.”
In addition to Novogratz, there are several other prominent figures who have increased their targets for Bitcoin prices after the recent bull run. Standpoint Research’s Ronnie Moas has corrected his target second time this month from $11,000 to $14,000. There are several factors which can contribute to next upward journey for Bitcoin from here.
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