In his May 12 interview with Bloomberg, Steve Pagliuca, co-chairman of private equity firm Bain Capital, called Dogecoin “a prescription for disaster”:
“Obviously, it could be a lot of fun to buy a dollar or two of Dogecoin, but I certainly wouldnt bet my savings on that.”
The meme cryptocurrency is currency trading in the green after Tesla CEO Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll to find out whether the leading e-car maker should accept it as a form of payment.
The poll has attracted 3.8 million votes, with the majority of Musks followers willing to see the meme coin as a new payment method.
DOGE is still up over 11,000 percent despite a significant correction that occurred during the billionaires “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut.
Pagliuca also has a Bitcoin warning
Pagliuca also cannot wrap his head around Bitcoin being a “viable currency.”
That said, he does see it as a better alternative to gold because its portable and divisible:
“Bitcoin is actually a more efficient store of value. You can transfer, its dividable. The blockchain technology is fantastic, but I think it has a long way to go.”
If Bitcoin does go as far as becoming a currency, he predicts that governments will react to this with draconian regulations.