億萬(wàn)富翁風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資家彼得·泰爾曾在于邁阿密召開(kāi)的大會(huì)上發(fā)表演講,大談特談比特幣的好處。而在此之前一個(gè)月,他的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司Founders Fund已經(jīng)減少了持續(xù)八年的加密貨幣投資。
《金融時(shí)報(bào)》的報(bào)道引用知情人士的爆料稱,加密貨幣曾經(jīng)是該公司的核心投資之一,但到2022年3月,該公司出售了絕大多數(shù)加密貨幣資產(chǎn),獲得18億美元回報(bào)。《金融時(shí)報(bào)》稱,該公司加密貨幣投資的三分之二被用于購(gòu)買比特幣。
該公司的減持恰逢其時(shí),使其避開(kāi)了去年晚些時(shí)候的比特幣價(jià)格暴跌。去年11月,比特幣價(jià)格暴跌至約15,599美元,為兩年來(lái)的最低水平。
但4月,在邁阿密召開(kāi)的2022年比特幣大會(huì)(Bitcoin 2022)上,泰爾對(duì)于其基金大規(guī)模減持加密貨幣的做法卻只字未提。他支持比特幣的態(tài)度也沒(méi)有絲毫改變。他在演講中表示:“我們的法定貨幣制度即將終結(jié)。”他還表示,比特幣的價(jià)值被低估,但“有巨大潛力取代黃金”。
Founders Fund拒絕向路透社發(fā)表意見(jiàn)。
去年,隨著多家業(yè)內(nèi)知名度最高的公司破產(chǎn),包括加密貨幣對(duì)沖基金Three Arrows Capital和加密貨幣交易平臺(tái)FTX等,幾乎所有加密貨幣的價(jià)格都大幅下跌。FTX的破產(chǎn)和對(duì)其前CEO山姆·班克曼-弗萊德的刑事指控,對(duì)其他公司造成了影響,并引起了監(jiān)管部門的密切關(guān)注。
位于舊金山的Founders Fund從2014年開(kāi)始買入比特幣,當(dāng)時(shí)的交易價(jià)格不到1,000美元,之后八年不斷加倉(cāng)。泰爾也是最早投資比特幣的知名投資者之一。
據(jù)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》報(bào)道,由于Founders Fund出售比特幣和從長(zhǎng)期持有的Airbnb等公司和泰爾參與創(chuàng)建的數(shù)據(jù)分析公司Palantir退出,該公司在2020年至去年年底向投資者返還了共130億美元。該公司管理的資產(chǎn)規(guī)模超過(guò)110億美元。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
翻譯:劉進(jìn)龍
審校:汪皓
億萬(wàn)富翁風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資家彼得·泰爾曾在于邁阿密召開(kāi)的大會(huì)上發(fā)表演講,大談特談比特幣的好處。而在此之前一個(gè)月,他的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司Founders Fund已經(jīng)減少了持續(xù)八年的加密貨幣投資。
《金融時(shí)報(bào)》的報(bào)道引用知情人士的爆料稱,加密貨幣曾經(jīng)是該公司的核心投資之一,但到2022年3月,該公司出售了絕大多數(shù)加密貨幣資產(chǎn),獲得18億美元回報(bào)。《金融時(shí)報(bào)》稱,該公司加密貨幣投資的三分之二被用于購(gòu)買比特幣。
該公司的減持恰逢其時(shí),使其避開(kāi)了去年晚些時(shí)候的比特幣價(jià)格暴跌。去年11月,比特幣價(jià)格暴跌至約15,599美元,為兩年來(lái)的最低水平。
但4月,在邁阿密召開(kāi)的2022年比特幣大會(huì)(Bitcoin 2022)上,泰爾對(duì)于其基金大規(guī)模減持加密貨幣的做法卻只字未提。他支持比特幣的態(tài)度也沒(méi)有絲毫改變。他在演講中表示:“我們的法定貨幣制度即將終結(jié)。”他還表示,比特幣的價(jià)值被低估,但“有巨大潛力取代黃金”。
Founders Fund拒絕向路透社發(fā)表意見(jiàn)。
去年,隨著多家業(yè)內(nèi)知名度最高的公司破產(chǎn),包括加密貨幣對(duì)沖基金Three Arrows Capital和加密貨幣交易平臺(tái)FTX等,幾乎所有加密貨幣的價(jià)格都大幅下跌。FTX的破產(chǎn)和對(duì)其前CEO山姆·班克曼-弗萊德的刑事指控,對(duì)其他公司造成了影響,并引起了監(jiān)管部門的密切關(guān)注。
位于舊金山的Founders Fund從2014年開(kāi)始買入比特幣,當(dāng)時(shí)的交易價(jià)格不到1,000美元,之后八年不斷加倉(cāng)。泰爾也是最早投資比特幣的知名投資者之一。
據(jù)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》報(bào)道,由于Founders Fund出售比特幣和從長(zhǎng)期持有的Airbnb等公司和泰爾參與創(chuàng)建的數(shù)據(jù)分析公司Palantir退出,該公司在2020年至去年年底向投資者返還了共130億美元。該公司管理的資產(chǎn)規(guī)模超過(guò)110億美元。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
翻譯:劉進(jìn)龍
審校:汪皓
One month before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel raved about the advantages of Bitcoin during a speech at a Miami conference, his VC firm Founders Fund had already offloaded an eight-year bet on cryptocurrencies.
While crypto was once one of its core positions, by March 2022, the firm had generated $1.8 billion from selling off the vast majority of its crypto holdings,?the?Financial Times reported, citing a person close to the fund. Two-thirds of its crypto investment consisted of Bitcoin, according to the FT.
The selloff was timely, and protected the firm from the collapse in Bitcoin’s price later that year that would take it to about?$15,599 last November, its lowest price in two years.
But in April at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Thiel made no mention of his fund’s massive crypto selloff. He also didn’t waver in his support for Bitcoin. During a speech, he said, “We are at the end of the fiat money regime,” and added that Bitcoin was undervalued but “has every potential to replace gold.”
Founders Fund declined to comment to Reuters.
The price of almost all cryptocurrencies plummeted last year as the industry experienced the bankruptcies of some of its most high-profile companies, including the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and crypto exchange FTX. The collapse of FTX and the criminal charges handed down to former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in particular have caused damage to several other companies and have drawn outsized attention from regulators.
San Francisco-based Founders Fund first bought into Bitcoin in 2014 when it traded for under $1,000 and increased its holdings over the next eight years. Thiel was also one of the first well known investors to put money into Bitcoin.
In part, because of its Bitcoin selloff, along with exits from long-held companies like Airbnb and the Thiel-cofounded data analytics group Palantir, Founders Fund returned about $13 billion to investors between 2020 and the end of last year, according to the FT. The company has more than $11 billion under management.