He also drew his followers’ attention to the real “de-dollarization” taking place around the world. Meanwhile, Taleb continues to criticize the world’s flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.
He clarified that this process is not about trade settlements, because these transactions are still labelled in U.S. dollars as an “anchor currency.” However, Taleb mentioned an important detail. He said that despite settling transactions in U.S. dollars, central banks, especially those from the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have been storing gold. These banks have been putting their free reserves into this risk-off asset.
He also proudly pointed out that gold has surged by approximately 30% year-on-year – spot gold has seen an increase from $2,043 on Jan. 2 to $2,508 on Sept. 10.
However, in 2020, he switched sides, stating that he had become disappointed in Bitcoin due to its high volatility. Since then, he has claimed Bitcoin to be a “tumor” in the body of the economy and has been taking every chance to criticize it.
Earlier this year, Taleb teased a new book he is working on at the moment. It will be called the Lydian Stone (also famous as the “touchstone”). That is a flint stone that used to be leveraged by people to verify the quality of silver and gold. The book will be “partly on how humans get confused by sequences,” according to Taleb. “It also maps to the arrow of time and Entropy,” he specified.
This article was originally published on U.Today
Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
