Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller thinks that stablecoins are “incredibly useful”—so much so that he expects them to become the backbone of the financial system in the coming decades.
The former hedge fund manager did not speak as highly about the rest of the crypto industry.
“It’s a solution looking for a problem,” he said when asked what came to his head about “crypto” in a word association game. “I’m very sad that it ever happened as a store of value, ‘cause it wasn’t needed.”
“But it’s a brand, and these people love it, so it’s going to be a store of value,” he added, not specifically singling out Bitcoin or any other tokens.
Six years later, the asset has climbed to a $1.4 trillion market cap as it changes hands around $71,520 on Friday, a rebound of around 8.5% in the last 30 days. At that price, BTC is still down around 43% from its October all-time high of $126,080.
