Fiat Currency Will be Laughable in Five Years Says Billionaire Tim Draper
Tim Draper has every reason to be bullish on Bitcoin as he has seen his $20 mln investment in the digital currency grow by over 1,000 percent in just three years. Draper is now predicting that in five years fiat will be so obsolete, it will be laughable.
The tech investor has made a fortune backing companies like Skype, Tesla and Twitter. He first got involved in Bitcoin after he bought 30,000 of them in 2014 in a government auction of assets seized from Silk Road.
Don’t be a laughing stock
While Draper may be on the defensive after his ICO baby Tezos became embroiled in scandal, leading to a class action lawsuit, he is still highly bullish about the future of the grand-daddy of digital currencies. Draper told Forbes:
"In five years, if you try to use fiat currency, they will laugh at you. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will be so relevant ... there will be no reason to have the fiat currencies."
Bitcoin, and the rest of the cryptocurrency market, recently made it over $200 bln in a rally that saw Wall Street again add fuel to the fire by announcing trading in Bitcoin futures. This pales in comparison to the trillions of dollars in global fiat currency supply. Nonetheless, the fact that Bitcoin has appreciated over 600 percent this year is reason enough to believe it is on a rocketing trajectory, aiming at the fiat market.
Fiat bound
Draper goes on to explain how fiat has its limitations, the same limitations that are really starting to bug a progressive and forward thinking global population.
Crossing the border for any currency is never a pleasing or easy exercise. The Nigerian Naira drops 30% when you cross the border. Outside Argentina, the country's peso is currency nearly worthless, and there are other countries where this is true as well.
In Zimbabwe and Venezuela, their currencies have either disappeared totally, or are on the brink of total collapse, and already Bitcoin is doing its bit to pick up the pieces.
Seeing a future for ICOs
Draper may have been stung by Tezos, however, he still sees a future for altcoins and ICOs. The billionaire sees a future with hundreds, if not thousands, of different digital coins. Draper added:
“They’re all going to interrelate … and there will be exchange rates for all of them. My guess is that it will centralize around a wallet that you have, and when you pay for that Starbucks, your wallet will optimize to whichever currency has most value."