Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert says he should have just held BTC

Barry Silbert, the CEO of Digital Currency Group, said helium would person secured higher concern gains by conscionable holding the Bitcoin that helium invested successful early-stage crypto projects astir 2012.

During an April 17 appearance connected Raoul Pal's Journey Man podcast, Silbert said helium discovered Bitcoin (BTC) successful 2011, purchasing BTC astatine $7-$8 per coin. Once the terms of BTC surged, Silbert started looking for early-stage crypto companies to put in. The enforcement told Raoul Pal:

"I was utilizing Bitcoin to marque a clump of those investments, and you would think, if you invested successful Coinbase you would person done truly well. Had I conscionable held the Bitcoin, I really would person done amended than making those investments."

Silbert's comments travel astatine a clip erstwhile Bitcoin maximalists, including Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor, forecast a seven-figure Bitcoin terms successful the coming decade, and BTC receives greater attraction from governments worldwide.

Bitcoin terms past 2011-2025. Source: CoinMarketCap

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Bitcoin could deed $1 cardinal if US begins buying BTC

Zach Shapiro, the caput of the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) deliberation tank, precocious predicted BTC would deed $1 million per coin if the United States authorities were to acquisition 1 cardinal BTC.

“If the United States announces that we are buying a cardinal Bitcoin, that’s conscionable a planetary seismic shock," Shapiro told Bitcoin Magazine successful an April 16 podcast appearance.

Bo Hines, the enforcement manager of President Trump's White House Crypto Council, signaled that the assembly is exploring respective budget-neutral strategies for acquiring much Bitcoin for the US Strategic Reserve.

These strategies included revaluing the US Treasury's golden reserves, which are presently priced astatine $43 per ounce portion the marketplace complaint is astatine an all-time precocious of $3,300 per ounce, and backing Bitcoin acquisition done commercialized tariffs.

BTC has been floated arsenic a mode to destruct oregon alleviate the increasing nationalist indebtedness by President Trump and respective marketplace analysts.

According to plus absorption steadfast VanEck, Bitcoin could assistance claw backmost the $36 trillion nationalist debt by $14 trillion if the US Treasury introduces semipermanent bonds with BTC exposure.

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