- Higher expectations came from Investopedia’s M2 evaluation.
- A significantly higher and less specific $105,000 per ounce of gold is predicted by M2.
The American financial company VanEck estimates that if Bitcoin becomes the world’s reserve currency, it could be worth $4.8 million per coin. VanEck feels the Chinese Yuan is more plausible, but that’s a huge “if.”
VanEck’s Head of Active EM Debt Eric Fine and Chief Economist Natalia Gurushina sought to analyze the price implications of gold and Bitcoin (BTC) if either were to be accepted as the underpinning for global currency regimes in a March 30 insights paper.
Between $1.3 Million and $4.8 Million
In VanEck’s study, BTC’s suggested price fluctuated between $1.3 million and $4.8 million. According to the investing database Investopedia, the lower projection was based on BTC as a monetary base (M0), which economists seldom consider but which includes all circulating supply and bank deposits. Higher expectations came from Investopedia’s M2 evaluation, which it regards to gauge the money supply and its capacity to be transformed into cash.
Because “a very big number of central banks have little or no reserve gold,” Fine and Gurushina preferred the M0 price projection of $31,000 for gold’s per-ounce price. A significantly higher and less specific $105,000 per ounce of gold is predicted by M2 due to the absence of reserves. As a result of the recent geopolitical instability, Russia is now considering using other currencies, such as Bitcoin, to conduct oil transactions with its “friendly” allies, China and Turkey.
The tendency might spread to other countries’ central banks, and the supremacy of the US dollar could be challenged. Chinese Yuan is favored as a new reserve currency by Fine and Gurushina, although they expect countries to reorganize their currency holdings regardless of the new currency.
