Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has jumped on the bandwagon of financial bigwigs saying bitcoin is in a bubble.
The business magnate and founder of Icahn Enterprises told CNBCÂ that the cryptocurrency âseems like a bubbleâ and that he didnât understand the hype around bitcoin.
Icahn stated:
âI got to tell you honestly, I donât understand it ⦠I just donât get it. I just stay out of something if I donât understand it.â
The investor further compared the bitcoin market to 18th-century Mississippi land bubble before it finally collapsed. âTo me, this is what this is,â he said.
His comments follow similar comments from investor Warren Buffett in October, describing bitcoin as a âreal bubble.â Buffett said at the time, âPeople get excited from big price movements, and Wall Street accommodates,â while criticizing the idea of applying a value to bitcoin.
Additionally, Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam stated last month that bitcoin is âthe very definition of a bubble,â calling the anonymity of the cryptocurrency a âchallenge.â
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