ביטפורי ס סעאָ דערקלערט פארוואס ביטקאָין איז פּראָנעד פֿאַר אַפּקאַמינג גיינז

Brian Brooks – CEO of the crypto mining firm Bitfury Group – believes the value of a certain digital asset is driven by the development of its network. As such, he predicted that bitcoin will jump from its current $20,000 price tag as an increasing number of people have started employing it.

$20K Is Not Where BTC Should be

Bitcoin’s USD valuation is traditionally one of the main topics in the cryptocurrency space, and logically, its recent drastic price fluctuations have made the headlines. At the moment of writing these lines, the primary digital asset trades at approximately $20,000, which is a significant drawback, considering the all-time high of almost $70K registered seven months ago.

Nonetheless, Brian Brooks – former US Acting Comptroller of the Currency who now serves as the CEO of Bitfury – מיינט BTC’s value will soon head north as millions of people around the globe use it for transactions. He added that the prices of digital assets are fueled by the adoption rate of their underlying network:

"דעריבער ביטקאָין וועט נישט בלייבן ביי $ 20,000 ווייַל מער און מער מענטשן נוצן עס. דער זעלביקער מיט אַ פּלאַץ פון אנדערע זאכן. די ווערט פון די נעץ איז וואָס דרייווז די ווערט פון די סימען. ”

On another note, he argued that cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, do not have a chance to steal the dominance of the American dollar. In his view, those coins should be viewed not like currencies but like Internet stocks:

“It’s more like you bet on Google if you think there’s going to be high internet traffic; if you short it, it’s that people are going to go back to the post office, right? But it’s not that Ethereum or Ripple or anything else is trying to replace the US dollar, it’s trying to replace the system of transmitting value.”

Subsequently, Brooks touched upon stablecoins which turned into another controversial topic after Terra’s UST קאַלאַפּסט to zero last month. The exec expects these tokens to emerge as products similar to “bank deposits that don’t have a minimum balance fee, don’t have a monthly maintenance fee, and don’t have a transaction fee.”

Brooks’ Statements Throughout the Years

די אמעריקאנער אריין געטרעטן as the company’s new CEO last November, replacing Valery Vavilov. Upon his arrival, he vowed to establish Bitfury as a leader in the European digital asset ecosystem.

Back then, he praised the organization for its “sustained research and best-in-class proprietary technologies” that it provides. Bitfury’s innovative nature increases its chances for success in the long-term, he added.

In 2020, while serving as the interim head at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in the Trump administration, Brooks דערלאנגט himself as a keen advocate of bitcoin and blockchain technology:

"בלאָקקטשאַין האט די פּאָטענציעל צו פאַרבינדן אַלע מינים פון דאַטן אין אַ דיסענטראַלייזד נעץ. עס האט די פיייקייט צו שאַפֿן גרויס, רייַבונג-פריי, דיסענטראַלייזד נעטוואָרקס פון מענטשן. עס איז ריזיק און גרויס צוזאָג אין בלאַקכייוואַן און קריפּטאָ.