{"id":13198,"date":"2021-10-14T23:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/billionaire-barry-sternlicht-owns-bitcoin-because-governments-are-printing-money-now-to-the-end-of-time\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T23:54:05","slug":"billionaire-barry-sternlicht-owns-bitcoin-because-governments-are-printing-money-now-to-the-end-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/billionaire-barry-sternlicht-owns-bitcoin-because-governments-are-printing-money-now-to-the-end-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Barry Sternlicht Owns Bitcoin Because Governments Are \u2018Printing Money Now to the End of Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The billionaire CEO of Starwood Capital, an investment firm with over $95 billion under management, has revealed that he owns bitcoin and ether. \u201cThe U.S. government, and every government in the Western Hemisphere, is printing money now to the end of time, and this is a finite amount of something and it can be traded globally,\u201d he explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Billionaire Barry Sternlicht Owns Bitcoin and Ether<\/h2>\n<p>Barry Sternlicht, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, an investment firm with over $95 billion in assets under management (AUM), talked about bitcoin and cryptocurrency in an interview with CNBC Wednesday. According to Forbes\u2019 list of billionaires, Sternlicht\u2019s net worth as of Oct. 14 is $4.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Starwood Capital boss revealed that he owns bitcoin and ether, noting that cryptocurrency makes sense as a way to diversify investment portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on what JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said about bitcoin being <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/jpmorgan-boss-jamie-dimon-bitcoin-worthless-btcs-limited-supply\/\">worthless<\/a>, he said, \u201cGold is kind of worthless too.\u201d Discussing bitcoin as a store of value, he shared:<\/p>\n<p>The reason I own bitcoin is because the U.S. government, and every government in the Western Hemisphere, is printing money now to the end of time, and this is a finite amount of something and it can be traded globally.<\/p>\n<p>Despite owning <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">BTC<\/a>, the billionaire CEO described: \u201cBitcoin is a dumb coin. It has no real purpose other than a store of value, and it\u2019s crazily volatile.\u201d He proceeded to explain why he owns ether. \u201cSo, ether \u2026 I own some of that. It\u2019s a programmable Bitcoin, and there are tons of other coins built on that system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Sternlicht noted that he has \u201cbecome very interested in blockchain technology as a whole.\u201d Stating that the technology is \u201cgoing to change everything,\u201d he believes, \u201cWe\u2019re probably in inning one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about billionaire Barry Sternlicht\u2019s comments about bitcoin and cryptocurrency? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin News<br \/>\nNews, Barry Sternlicht, Barry Sternlicht bitcoin, Barry Sternlicht btc, Barry Sternlicht crypto, Barry Sternlicht cryptocurrency, Barry Sternlicht eth, Barry Sternlicht ether<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The billionaire CEO of Starwood Capital, an investment firm with over $95 billion under management, has revealed that he owns bitcoin and ether. \u201cThe U.S. government, and every government in the Western Hemisphere, is printing money now to the end of time, and this is a finite amount of something and it can be traded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}