{"id":51385,"date":"2024-01-08T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/?p=51385"},"modified":"2024-04-20T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:33:07","slug":"former-paypal-president-says-bitcoin-is-still-the-trade-of-this-generation-even-at-45000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/former-paypal-president-says-bitcoin-is-still-the-trade-of-this-generation-even-at-45000\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PayPal President Says Bitcoin Is Still The Trade of This Generation Even at $45,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Marcus, the former president of fintech company PayPal, has recently expressed his enthusiasm about Bitcoin\u2019s growth in a tweet, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidmarcus\/status\/1744048203438411903\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saying<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the leading cryptocurrency is \u201cthe trade of this generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BTC Lauded as Trade of This Generation<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his tweet, Marcus described <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/what-is-bitcoin\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as \u201ca fascinating human nature experiment.\u201d His point of view springs from the asset\u2019s meteoric performance since its early days. The former PayPal executive referenced a post from a Bitcoin early investor who stacked the cryptocurrency despite mockery from others. At the time, BTC traded at around $2.5 to $8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years, BTC has recorded exponential growth to new heights. By tagging Bitcoin as the trade of the generation, Marcus implies that the asset has unique attributes that make it a lucrative opportunity for investors, especially early buyers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite BTC\u2019s current price above $45,000, Marcus stated that \u201cwe\u2019re still so incredibly early,\u201d stressing that the leading cryptocurrency will demonstrate further price increases over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Marcus is no stranger to Bitcoin and blockchain as a whole. Over the years, he has demonstrated his support for several blockchain initiatives. For example, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/david-marcus-optimistic-libra\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joined in building<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Facebook\u2019s crypto project Libra before it rebranded as Diem in 2020 and wound down in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BTC Trades Above $45k<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time of writing, BTC traded at $45,000, representing a mild 1.6% uptick in the past 24 hours and a 5.52% over the past week. The current price is commendable because the asset traded between $43,000 and $44,000 over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51386\" src=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/btc-price-1-8-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coinstats.app\/coins\/bitcoin\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CoinStats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin\u2019s current performance is especially fueled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/u-s-sec-meets-with-stock-exchange-officials-ahead-of-potential-spot-bitcoin-etf-approval\/\">potential approval<\/a> of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States. Over the past year, several financial institutions have applied for the ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer a Bitcoin-backed asset to U.S. investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approval of the investment vehicle could possibly push Bitcoin\u2019s price to new heights.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Marcus, the former president of fintech company PayPal, has recently expressed his enthusiasm about Bitcoin\u2019s growth in a tweet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":20116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1809,5],"tags":[54,966],"ppma_author":[1785],"class_list":["post-51385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wallet-news","category-crypto-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-paypal"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1785,"user_id":35,"is_guest":0,"slug":"nwani-mishael","display_name":"Nwani Mishael","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e8ea06725ec7c6485a55b874464d3f4b?s=96&r=g","first_name":"Nwani","twitter":"","instagram":"","linkedin":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Mishael","facebook":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307361,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385\/revisions\/307361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51385"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=51385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}