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Peter Thiel, former CEO of PayPal, expressed doubts about Bitcoin's potential for significant price increases and questioned whether its cypherpunk, crypto-anarchist vision will ever be fully realized.
Peter Thiel Skeptical of Bitcoin's Future Price Surge, Questions Its Cypherpunk Ideological Vision
In a recent report by Cointelegraph, Peter Thiel thinks that Bitcoin's initial vision as a cypherpunk, crypto-anarchist, and freedom tool has yet to be realized.
Peter Thiel, the former CEO of PayPal, has expressed skepticism regarding the potential for Bitcoin's price to increase significantly from its current levels in the future.
The billionaire, who possesses "some" Bitcoin but not as much as he "should have," is uncertain about the source of the next wave of purchasers following the release of Bitcoin's "ETF edition."
“I'm not sure it's going to go up that dramatically from here. We got the ETF edition and I don't know who else buys it,” Thiel, a founder of the Founders Fund, told CNBC on June 28.
“It probably still can go up some but it’s going to be a volatile, bumpy ride.”
Thiel declared that he was "underinvested" in Bitcoin in October 2021, as the cryptocurrency was experiencing a surge toward its previous all-time high of $69,000, achieved approximately three weeks later.
Nevertheless, Thiel's Founders Fund has a remarkable history with Bitcoin, having made its first Bitcoin investment in 2014 and profited $1.8 billion a few months before the market collapsed in 2022.
Founders Fund acquired an additional $100 million in Bitcoin in 2023, trading below $30,000.
Peter Thiel Criticizes Bitcoin's Departure from Cypherpunk Ideals, Cites FBI Preferences as Evidence
Thiel disclosed that Bitcoin has yet to manifest as cypherpunk as initially anticipated.
“Where I’m less convinced is this question of the ideological founding vision of Bitcoin as a cypherpunk, crypto-anarchist, libertarian, anti-centralized government thing.”
“That’s what I thought was terrific about it,” Thiel recalled when first coming across Bitcoin.
However, he now maintains that Bitcoin "does not really operate in that manner."
“When people in the FBI tell me that they'd much rather have criminals use Bitcoin than $100 bills it suggests that maybe it's not quite working the way it was supposed to.”
Nevertheless, Bitcoin was intended to function as a public, permissionless, and decentralized ledger, and transactions were not meant to be entirely untraceable, as with Monero and other privacy-focused networks.
Bitcoin is trading at $60,450, a 1.8% decrease from the previous day.
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