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- Bitcoin will eventually be a better inflation hedge than gold, SkyBridge Capital boss Anthony Scaramucci told CNBC.
- He said he expected bitcoin to go up exponentially, while gold will only go up linearly.
- Bitcoin has been touted as a better inflation hedge than gold by many experts.
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SkyBridge Capital's Anthony Scaramucci said in a recent interview that he believes bitcoin will eventually overtake gold, both in terms of the size of the overall market, in addition to bullion's role as an inflation hedge.
"The Mooch" pointed to the ease with which anyone can move and store bitcoin, relative to gold, which is costly to hold as inventory and to move physically from one place to another.
"It will eventually eclipse gold," he told CNBC in an interview on Friday.
Scaramucci is one of a number of high profile crypto-friendly investors that believes bitcoin will outpace gold, along with the likes of MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor and Cathie Wood, the chief executive of disruptive technology investment house Ark Invest.
He said the fact that 65% of gold had already been mined compared with 89% of bitcoin was another factor in the bullish argument for bitcoin.
JPMorgan recently repeated its prediction that bitcoin could hit $146,000 and is behaving more like digital gold now in the face of rising US inflation. Bitcoin hit new highs last week, having gained 12% in the space of a month, according to Coinbase data.
Inflation in the US is currently high and is not expected to go down until the second half of 2022. Factors propelling inflation have been the pandemic and monetary policy, Scaramucci said.
"I'm not going to be surprised if bitcoin goes up at an exponential rate and gold goes up at a linear one," Scaramucci said, talking about market capitalization.
Gold's market cap is almost $12 trillion while the value of the bitcoin market is just over $1.2 trillion.
"I think it's probably going to be ten times better than gold over a long period of time," Scaramucci said.