In this talk, we'll explore the rise of digital
currencies as a new asset class and blockchain technology as a new medium for facilitating trust between individuals, machines, and institutions.
Our second fund builds on these areas as we see new protocols and applications continue to emerge, with the added thesis of
tokens as a new asset class.
Investments that have always worked well for him include real estate, leveraging debt, gold, silver, oil and he is now a big proponent of using crypto currency to your advantage
as a new asset class for financial success.
As for Bitcoin Cash, it can be
seen as a new asset class that achieved a valuation of $ 12 billion literally overnight (Update: as of mid-afternoon, the price had fallen to closer to $ 450 for a market cap closer to $ 8 billion.)
In a Medium post, Adam Ludwin from Chain, a company that builds cryptographic ledgers, explains that he views bitcoin not as a currency, but
as a new asset class altogether.
Within the past decade, it has gone from being a fringe idea proposed in a paper written by a mysterious author, to being a mainstream technology that some people are
treating as a new asset class.
Gallery founder Brent Sikemma said the opening hours felt like «a stampede» just like the old boom days: «Art is fully and fundamentally
perceived as the new asset class.
Digital assets are
emerging as a new asset class, with more than $ 4 billion dollars daily volume and total market cap nearing US$ 100 billion dollars.
«I'm also excited about the idea of
art as a new asset class in general, and think Maecenas can help democratize access to it.
While China took an extreme approach by just banning ICOs, most countries recognize
ICOs as a new asset class that requires regulation.
«The availability of robust reference prices with independent oversight is key to the professionalization of bitcoin trading and further establishes digital
assets as a new asset class,»
While digital money was once seen as the province of cranks and computers geeks, it's now so mainstream that investors see
it as a new asset class and are creating hundred million dollar hedge funds to acquire it.
As a new asset class (or very different member of the «cash or cash equivalent» asset class), Bitcoin has yet to find its place in the world.
Some people think that you can compare it to a traditional currency, or gold, while others describe
it as a new asset class.
Concanno went so far as to refer to bitcoin
as a new asset class, saying he believes in the cryptocurrency space in general.
There are those who are calling Bitcoin digital gold and backing
it as a new asset class for investors to store and profit from.
CME Group Chairman Emeritus Leo Melamed hailed
it as a new asset class ahead of the FX trader's move to introduce Bitcoin futures as early as next week.