Ricardo Salinas, founder and chairman of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, mentioned 70% of his funding portfolio is now allotted to Bitcoin-related property — up from 10% in 2020.
Speaking with Bloomberg on March 4, Salinas mentioned he’s “just about all in” on Bitcoin (BTC), whereas the remaining 30% of his investments are in gold and gold miners.
“That’s it. I don’t have a single bond, and I don’t have some other shares.”
The 70% Bitcoin allocation presumably excludes shares that he holds in his firm’s inventory, Grupo Elektra SAB de CV, which boasts a 75.15 billion Mexican peso ($3.64 billion) market cap, Google Finance data reveals.
Salinas referred to Bitcoin because the “hardest asset on this planet,” pointing to Bitcoin’s mounted provide cap. He advisable that buyers dollar cost average — purchase small quantities of BTC — over a long run.
“Purchase every little thing you possibly can. It’s not going to go anyplace besides up as a result of the dynamics are such that it's the hardest asset on this planet.”
“Not even gold is this tough. Your gold will get inflated at about 3% a yr by extra manufacturing from mines. Bitcoin doesn’t,” Salinas added. “By no means promote it.”
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Salinas, who boasts a internet value of $4.6 billion, has elevated his publicity to Bitcoin since November 2020, when he mentioned 10% of his liquid portfolio was invested in Bitcoin.
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The billionaire mentioned that his allocation increased to 60% on the Bitcoin 2022 Convention in April 2022.
On the convention, Salinas informed Cointelegraph in an interview that he was “orange-pilled” by former Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert in 2012 or 2013 and made his first Bitcoin funding at $200.
Salinas has been trying to make one in all his firm’s subsidiaries, Banco Azteca, the primary Mexican financial institution to accept Bitcoin since at least 2021— nevertheless, he has confronted regulatory battles in that endeavor.
His Bitcoin feedback got here as he revealed his plan to take away monetary providers agency and retailer Grupo Elektra from Grupo Salinas to permit him to run that enterprise as he needs.
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