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Crypto Now Braced For $6 Trillion Gold Earthquake in 2024 After XRP-Led Bitcoin And Ethereum Price Boom - FORBES
BY Billy Bambrough
BitcoinBTC 0.0%, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have swung wildly over the last month, hit this week by a shock warning revealed by Coinbase's chief executive.
The bitcoin price has almost doubled since dropping to recent lows late last year, helped by a shock BlackRock crypto flip and XRPXRP 0.0% developer Ripple claiming a surprise victory over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Now, the chief executive of hedge fund Morgan Creek Capital Management, Mark Yusko, has predicted the bitcoin price could soar to $300,000 by 2028, with next year's supply cut kicking off a rally that will push it beyond gold's $6 trillion market capitalization.
"The monetary value of gold is about $6 trillion, I think bitcoin can replace all of that, the monetary equivalent of $6 trillion is about a 10X from here, which gives us a price of about $300,000 [per bitcoin]," Yusko told Coindesk, pointing to previous bitcoin supply cuts, known as halvings, as the catalyst for price rises.
"Every [bitcoin] halving, we've added a zero, and by next April I think we could go to $100,000,” Yusko said, adding bitcoin fixes gold's problems of portability and divisibility and is "equally scarce."
In April next year, bitcoin is expected to undergo its fourth halving, cutting the supply of new bitcoin being awarded to so-called miners who maintain the network to just over three, down from just over six currently.
