{"id":4851,"date":"2024-12-29T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2024-12-29T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:01:35","slug":"bill-gates-expressed-skepticism-towards-bitcoin-i-would-short-it-if-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Expressed Skepticism Towards Bitcoin: &#8216;I Would Short It&#8217; If Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Microsoft co-founder\u00a0<strong>Bill Gates<\/strong>\u00a0once voiced his doubts about <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), stating that he would bet against the cryptocurrency if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: During an interview in 2018, Gates criticized Bitcoin\u2019s lack of productivity as an asset class. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an asset class, you\u2019re\u00a0not producing anything and so\u00a0you shouldn\u2019t\u00a0expect it to go up.\u00a0It\u2019s kind of a pure \u2018greater fool theory\u2019 type of investment,\u201d Gates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/07\/bill-gates-i-would-short-bitcoin-if-i-could.html#:~:text=Bitcoin%20and%20other%20cryptocurrencies%20are,do%20it%2C%22%20he%20said.\">told<\/a> CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>He further added, \u201cI\u00a0agree I would short it\u00a0if there was an easy\u00a0way to do it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite his criticism of Bitcoin and Initial Coin &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42716028\/bill-gates-expressed-skepticism-towards-bitcoin-i-would-short-it-if-possible\" alt=\"Bill\" gates expressed skepticism towards bitcoin: would short it if possible>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder\u00a0Bill Gates\u00a0once voiced his doubts about Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), stating that he would bet against the cryptocurrency if given the opportunity. What Happened: During an interview in 2018, Gates criticized Bitcoin\u2019s lack of productivity as an asset class. \u201cAs an asset class, you\u2019re\u00a0not producing anything and so\u00a0you shouldn\u2019t\u00a0expect it to go up.\u00a0It\u2019s kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}