On Saturday afternoon, Mark Cuban posted another crypto prediction, “Chips as an asset class will be the new crypto.” Within a day, the controversial, 10-word thesis became a trending topic and racked up over 1.2 million views.
Will Mark Cuban eat his words with his newest crypto prediction?
On Saturday afternoon, Mark Cuban posted another crypto prediction, “Chips as an asset class will be the new crypto.” Within a day, the controversial, 10-word thesis became a trending topic and racked up over 1.2 million views.
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The replies doubled as a highlight reel of Cuban’s dismal record with prior crypto predictions.
Cuban has been incorrectly predicting crypto prices for more than seven years, including a banana-based valuation framework and numerous deleted posts that are doubly embarrassing after Cuban both failed to predict crypto prices and then tried to erase the evidence.
Cuban also promoted an Iron Finance yield farm mere days before it imploded and went to $0, plus a “risk free” lender that went bankrupt.
He has also experienced a six-figure phishing loss of digital assets due to poor security and self-owned by selling out of his bitcoin (BTC) position.
Before anyone weighs in on Cuban’s belief that computer chips will outperform crypto, below is a review of his expired predictions.
‘I’d rather have bananas’
In a 2019 Wired interview, Cuban said BTC had even less intrinsic value than baseball cards, comic books, or artwork.
Confidently, he delivered a line that still haunts him, “I’d rather have bananas, I can eat bananas. Crypto, not so much.”
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