In a conversation with Bitcoinist, Max Keiser, American broadcaster, filmmaker and Wall Street Veteran, has said that he envisages that the crypto giant Bitcoin “will top USD 100,000”.
Timothy Maxwell ‘Max’ Keiser currently hosts the Keiser Report on Russian state media channel RT. Until 2012, Keiser anchored the news analysis program On the Edge on Iran’s Press TV. Elsewhere, he has hosted business analysis programmes for BBC Radio 5 and BBC World News and produced the TV series, People and Power, for Al-Jazeera.
Keiser was quick to point out in the interview that his show was the first to cover Bitcoin back in 2011, arguing that it “fulfills Aristotle’s 4 conditions of money nicely”. It must be durable, portable, divisible (have fungibility) and it must have intrinsic value.
Keiser maintains that with extremely low interest rates prevailing around the world, there is absolutely no incentive to save. Thus, due to poor investment practices and a “horrendous capital allocation trend”, an unsustainable bubble has been created: “an economy of artificially inflated stocks, bonds, property, and art”. He maintains that Bitcoin, along with gold, remain outside this bubble, although he sees altcoin Bitcoin Cash as “dodgy”, riding on the back of Bitcoin’s success.
Recent developments and comments surrounding investor and magnate George Soros and The Rockefellers were seen by Keiser as evidence that futures contracts could be used to build much bigger positions. He sees George Soros attempting to “corner” the bitcoin market, borrowing at 0% and accumulating “a huge position”.
In this scenario with the added financial impetus offered by big players, Keiser says Bitcoin can only go “a lot higher”, predicting a long-term target for the virtual currency of USD 100,000, based on “a Soros dump”.
Apart from Keiser’s appearances he has appeared as a financial pundit on a number of news networks. He was the creator, founder and CEO of HSX Holdings/Hollywood Stock Exchange and co-invented the Virtual Specialist platform on which the Hollywood stock exchange operates. The technology allowed traders to exchange virtual securities such as the Hollywood Dollar.
