Corporate giants may not follow MicroStrategy's Bitcoin adoption play, Raoul Pal explains
Cointelegraph
Published Nov 03, 2020 12:37PM ET
Updated Nov 03, 2020 02:20PM ET
Earlier this year, business intelligence giant MicroStrategy put $425 million of its treasury funds into Bitcoin (BTC). The move was largely seen as a big step in the right direction for mainstream Bitcoin adoption. MicroStrategy, with its CEO and founder Michael Saylor — a Bitcoin skeptic-turned bull — may not usher in massive corporate adoption for crypto's pioneering asset, however, according to former hedge funder Raoul Pal.
"I don't think Michael is going to drive corporate adoption in the space because he's really speaking the language of Bitcoin and not the language of corporate treasurers, and that has to happen," Pal told podcaster Peter McCormack on an episode of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, published today.
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