{"id":51059,"date":"2018-05-08T23:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T06:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=51059"},"modified":"2019-11-07T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:56:08","slug":"ex-goldman-president-says-bitcoin-will-not-be-the-worlds-global-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/ex-goldman-president-says-bitcoin-will-not-be-the-worlds-global-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Goldman President Says Bitcoin Will Not Be the World&#8217;s &#8216;Global Cryptocurrency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skepticism surrounding the world's leading cryptocurrency\u00a0remains as ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn says that Bitcoin will not be the true &#8220;global cryptocurrency&#8221; that people such as Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/twitter-ceo-believes-bitcoin-will-worlds-valuable-currency\/\">Jack Dorsey<\/a> thinks it will one day become.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Gary Cohn?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Cohn_(investment_banker)\">Gary Cohn<\/a> joined Goldman Sachs as a securities trader in 1990 and rose through the ranks until becoming COO and President in 2006 \u2013 establishing himself as an expert in the fields of banking and macroeconomics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51067 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gary-cohn-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gary-cohn-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gary-cohn-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gary-cohn.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Cohn, former Goldman Sachs President and former Chief Economic Advisor of U.S.<br \/>Source: REX\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2016, Cohn left Goldman Sachs to join the White House as the National Economic Council Director for the Trump Administration.\u00a0Just one year later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/gary-cohn-resigns.html\">Cohn left the White House<\/a> when President Trump announced plans to levy tariffs on aluminum and steel imports \u2013 a move that Cohn advised against.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Cohn has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/05\/gary-cohn-sounds-like-a-guy-who-just-escaped-a-cult-that-chains-people-to-radiators\">expressed interest<\/a> in the emerging markets of cryptocurrency and blockchain applications, even proposing a &#8220;business idea&#8221; that combines blockchain with banking. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/08\/we-will-have-a-global-cryptocurrency-but-not-bitcoin-says-gary-cohn.html\">CNBC<\/a>, Cohn said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I'm not a big believer in Bitcoin. I am a believer in blockchain technology.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, Cohn made clear that Bitcoin is too complex as a cryptocurrency and unfriendly to the average user's experience when it comes to making payments or mining.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cohn did express optimism to the realization of a future global cryptocurrency:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do think we will have a global cryptocurrency at some point where the world understands it and it\u2019s not based on mining costs or cost of electricity or things like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bitcoin's scalability issues further support\u00a0Cohn's opinion that the global cryptocurrency of the future &#8220;will be much more easily understood [as to] how it\u2019s created, how it moves and how people can use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49516\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-social-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Goldman Sachs Confirms Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Desk\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-social-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-social-1-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-social-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-social-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Related Article:\u00a0<a title=\"Goldman Sachs Confirms Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Desk\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/goldman-sachs-confirms-launch-of-bitcoin-trading-desk\/\">Goldman Sachs Confirms Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Desk<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whether Bitcoin will be the world's truly &#8220;global cryptocurrency&#8221; is uncertain, but it is becoming clear that cryptocurrency as a whole is making strides towards mass adoption by the general public, corporations,\u00a0and governments.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Goldman Sachs became a vanguard in the financial world as the first major investment firm to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/goldman-sachs-confirms-launch-of-bitcoin-trading-desk\/\">Bitcoin futures trading desk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> is currently trading at $9,099.19 USD and has a market capitalization of\u00a0$154.89 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skepticism surrounding the world&#8217;s leading cryptocurrency\u00a0remains as ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn says that Bitcoin will not be the true &#8220;global cryptocurrency&#8221; that people such as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey thinks it will one day become. 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