Raoul Pal: Gold Investors “Will Flip To BTC” As Bitcoin Blasts Past $13.8k

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is up 33% month-to-date, as it climbed from $10,374 to $13,859. Following the strong performance of the dominant cryptocurrency, Raoul Pal says gold investors may soon flip to BTC.

The confidence of Pal towards Bitcoin, who manages Global Macro Investor and Real Vision Group, comes from its momentum.

In recent months, Bitcoin has outperformed gold, the U.S. dollar, the U.S. stock market, and Big Tech.

For an early-phase store of value and technology that has the potential to see exponential growth, that might be expected.

But, many institutions do not see Bitcoin that way. The allure of Bitcoin is simple: it is a hedge against inflation. Hedge assets are not supposed to make money, but protect portfolios and serve as insurance. Uniquely, Bitcoin achieves both.

Bitcoin is able to act as an efficient hedge against inflation because 21 million BTC can ever exist. Counting the BTC that is permanently lost, the number is close to 16 to 17 million.

Atop that, Bitcoin is still in a nascent stage where the exchange infrastructure, custodianship, and mainstream adoption still have a large room to grow.

Prior to MicroStrategy
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, there were not many financial institutions that publicly announced major allocations into Bitcoin. Following MicroStrategy, multi-billion dollar companies like Square
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and Stone Ridge publicized their investments.

Based on the current technical momentum of Bitcoin and the market sentiment around it, Pal said precious metal investors could “flip to BTC.”

“Bitcoin is eating the world… It has become a supermassive black hole that is sucking in everything around it and destroying it. This narrative is only going to grow over the next 18 months. You see, gold is breaking down versus bitcoin…and gold investors will flip to BTC,” said Pal.

Emphasizing that BTC has outperformed most asset classes, Pal describes its recent performance as “so dominant and so all-encompassing.”

Throughout his career as a strategist and an asset manager, Pal said he has never seen anything close to BTC.

“Bitcoin’s performance is SO dominant and SO all-encompassing that it is going to suck in every single asset narrative dry and spit it out. Never before in my career have I see a trade so dominant that holding any other assets makes almost no sense,” he explained.

In the medium term, at least in the next five years, the dominant narrative around Bitcoin will remain as gold 2.0. 

As billionaire investor Mike Novogratz said, he does not expect Bitcoin to operate as a major currency within the next five years.

Hence, when it starts to be perceived as both a store of value and a currency, the value proposition of Bitcoin…