Anthony Pompliano Says Government Bans Can’t Stop Bitcoin, Here’s Why

In his recent podcast, Anthony Pompliano, a founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital, shared his insights on Bitcoin’s rise toward the $70,000 mark.

He made one such argument, stating that even if some hostile candidate gets elected and attempts to legislate punishment for cryptocurrency, that may be the catalyst for increased Bitcoin adoption.

He also alluded to examples from countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, and China. The tougher the government crackdown on Bitcoin, the more interest and adoption of the currency took place. Pomp said it’s because people realized that, at the end of the day, the government couldn’t do much.

Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin Bans Fuel Adoption, Not Suppression

In his podcast with Polina Marinova, Anthony Pompliano discussed how bans and prohibitions will never lead to results. He also discussed how everybody is wrong to think Kamala Harris is more anti-Bitcoin than Donald Trump.

He explained:

“You know, people are expecting Trump to be much friendlier to Bitcoin. In the crypto environment, I think Harris is, too. I think people have said that she’s looking to create a regulatory structure, but let’s say that there was a political candidate who got into office and suddenly was like: absolutely not. We’re not going to be friendly. We’re going to be more punitive than supportive.

How is that not going to impact the price? That would be more bullish for Bitcoin, I think. Why?

Because in countries where they have banned it, Pakistan, Nigeria, and China, adoption goes up faster because the people understand that the government is full of shit. And so if the government says you can’t have something, people are interested.”

Anthony Pompliano compared this to other industries like the drug trade and nicotine. There, attempts to prohibit or regulate them pushed demand into different, often more creative, avenues.

It’s important to mention that Kamala Harris has support from both crypto and anti-crypto community members. Even though being totally anti-crypto, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon backed Harris up. On the other hand, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen has donated $10 million to Harris.

Anthony Pompliano went on to state that Bitcoin is decentralized, and no government or president, for that matter, even the US, could hurt it.

He said that the attempted banning of Bitcoin in the US would hurt its people but not affect Bitcoin itself. Bitcoin’s resilience came from its programmatic and decentralized structural framework, wherein no single entity controlled it. In this sense, despite various governments trying to “shut down” Bitcoin, the highly resilient global network preserves it and performs transactions.

Challenging Goldman Sachs: Bitcoin to Outperform S&P 500

Anthony Pompliano went on to explain how Bitcoin’s volatility relates to mass adoption. He said that the more mainstream Bitcoin was, the fewer price fluctuations it would experience. Its returns may be smaller, but they will also be more stable.

However, he said the broad-based adoption caused more spread-out asset ownership, lowering its risk profile. Buying Bitcoin, therefore, was less risky than it had been in the earlier days, which turned into smaller expected returns. However, it will still outperform traditional assets like the S&P 500.

In contrast, Pompliano attacked Goldman Sachs’s prognosis that the S&P 500 would return only 3% annually over the next decade. He made light of the suggestion that bonds were a better alternative.

Pomp viewed bonds as a lousy investment, especially in inflationary environments, where they returned negative in real terms. He stated that whoever speaks highly of bonds as a superior asset should reassess their portfolio strategy.

Most conventional wisdom has blamed regulatory optimism and inflows into ETFs for the price rise, but Pompliano made it clear that Bitcoin’s upside was more periodical. According to him, the Bitcoin price defied all outside narratives on the US election, ETF flows, or broader economic cycles.

Anthony Pompliano drew parallels with Bitcoin’s price action in the 2020-2021 period. He noted how the market had seen a “sideways summer” prior to a big price breakout. Pomp said Bitcoin is due for another big upward move. He mentioned the natural consequences of the supply shock that occurred with Bitcoin’s halving event.

Pompliano did, however, caution investors about just how sizeable future growth could be. He advised that this may continue upwards for Bitcoin but that they should tamp down expectations of exponential gains seen in prior years. Bitcoin is maturing, and with its market cap growing, its volatility naturally decreases due to more modest, though still substantial, returns.