The CEO of global investment firm Skybridge Capital is predicting that the crypto markets will see more institutional interest in the next 12 to 18 months.
In a new episode of The Best Business Show, Anthony Scaramucci tells host and Bitcoin bull Anthony Pompliano that more institutional investors will likely jump into the crypto bandwagon as regulators move to clear the hurdles involved in buying and holding digital assets.
“I’ll make a bold prediction, Anthony. I think there’s going to be institutional interests over the next 12 to 18 months because you now have gotten the regulatory box checked and that checking of that box is going to lead to institutions saying, ‘Hey I got to get in this thing. I’ve got to own a piece of this. I’ve got to understand it,’ and what would George Soros say? He would say ‘Invest and investigate later.’”
Scaramucci considers the possibility that BTC, which is currently worth $61,354.19, may trade back to $50,000, but he says that the top crypto will likely breach the six-digit mark after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission greenlighted the first batch of Bitcoin futures exchange-traded funds (ETF).
“It’s likely to get to $150,000 over the next 12 months. I’m going to stick with my earlier price target that I shared with you on our SALT talk when you did my podcast. I think it’s a hundred thousand by year-end. I just think it’s that because there’s now a gateway opened… A gateway opened yesterday where an institution can now say ‘I can buy this.’
…Some of my friends said, ‘Well I’m not getting vaccinated until the FDA approves the vaccine.’ So that sort of metaphorically happened for Bitcoin. You got an approval from the SEC. Bitcoin lives in the financial regulatory ecosystem, and it’s not going anywhere and now, that portal has opened for a sophisticated early-adopting institution to say ‘It’s okay for me to step in the water here. I’m not going to get fired if I own this thing.”
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