Ray Dalio has admitted that he owns Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency’s greatest threat is its success.

Ray Dalio, billionaire and founding father of Bridgewater Associates LP, has revealed that he holds Bitcoin. He mentioned this on the 2021 Consensus convention. The interview was carried out earlier this month and was printed yesterday by Coindesk.

The billionaire investor has had doubts in regards to the main cryptocurrency prior to now however maintains that he’s an investor in Bitcoin. Nevertheless, Dalio believes Bitcoin’s greatest threat is its personal success. If the cryptocurrency succeeds, Dalio is afraid the federal government will attempt to management it and have the facility to take action.

“The extra we create financial savings in BTC, the extra you would possibly say, ‘I’d fairly have bitcoin than the bond.’ Personally, I’d fairly have bitcoin than a bond. After which the extra that occurs, then it goes into bitcoin, and it doesn’t go into credit score, then (governments) lose management of that,” Dalio mentioned.

The Bridgewater Associates founder has made this level recognized a number of occasions prior to now. In January, Dalio mentioned that if Bitcoin turns into profitable, the federal government might attempt to kill it. He said that the federal government won’t just like the success Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies are having fun with now.

Dalio reiterated this level in March, the place he warned of the potential for the US authorities banning Bitcoin. He cited that the US authorities did the identical factor to Gold within the Thirties. If Bitcoin turns into extra of a aggressive risk to Treasury Bonds, the federal government might look to ban it.

Nevertheless, a number of specialists have maintained that it’s nearly inconceivable to ban Bitcoin. The specialists imagine that it wouldn’t be technologically doable to ban Bitcoin resulting from how the cryptocurrency operates.

Dalio concluded that “The world goes to alter at an extremely quick tempo. Whoever wins the know-how race wins all of it, economically and militarily. That’s what the following 5 years appears to be like like.”