Masanin tattalin arziki da murya mai sukar Bitcoin Peter Schiff ya ɗauki X (tsohon Twitter) a ranar 9 ga Oktoba don yin tsokaci game da siyar da Bitcoin 69,370 da gwamnatin Amurka za ta yi, wanda darajarsa ta kai kusan dala biliyan 4.3. Gwamnati na shirin yin gwanjon Bitcoin da aka kwace daga rusasshiyar kasuwar Silk Road sakamakon hukuncin Kotun Koli na baya-bayan nan.
A cikin wani tweet wanda ya sake haifar da muhawara mai tsawo tsakanin masu ba da shawara na Bitcoin da masu shakka, Schiff ya ba da shawarar cewa Michael Saylor, Shugaba na MicroStrategy kuma mai goyon bayan Bitcoin, ya kamata ya dauki rancen dala biliyan 4.3 don siyan Bitcoin na gwamnati. "Kowace lokaci a cikin wani lokaci, gwamnati tana yin wani abu mai wayo," in ji Schiff, a sirara mai lullube da sukar dabarun sayen Bitcoin na Saylor.
Tun daga 2020, MicroStrategy ya sami fiye da 252,000 Bitcoin, tare da sabon sayan sa na 7,420 BTC wanda ya ƙara zuwa jimlar kuɗin da ya kai kusan dala biliyan 16. Schiff ya ci gaba da sukar wannan matakin a matsayin mai hadarin gaske, sabanin fifikon sa na zinare, wanda ya zama zakara a matsayin ma'ajiya mai inganci.
Rubutun ya jawo martani mai sauri daga bangarorin biyu na muhawarar cryptocurrency. Magoya bayan Bitcoin, kamar mai amfani Henry Scavacini, sun jaddada mahimman kaddarorin Bitcoin guda shida-ɗorewa, ɗaukar nauyi, rarrabuwa, fungibility, ƙarancin ƙarfi, da karɓuwa-ƙara rashin canji na musamman na blockchain azaman fasalin maɓalli na bakwai. Wannan ya haifar da ƙarin tattaunawa kan rawar Bitcoin a matsayin "kuɗi mai wuya."
Duk da goyan bayan da aka yi wa Bitcoin, Schiff ya kasance da tsayin daka a matsayinsa, yana mai cewa, "Ya ɓace mafi mahimmanci [dukiya]: ainihin ƙimar gaske." Bayanin nasa yana nuna ra'ayinsa na dogon lokaci cewa Bitcoin ba shi da ƙayyadaddun ƙima kamar zinariya.
Dangane da martani, masu sukar matsayin Schiff sun ba da haske game da kimar kasuwar Bitcoin a halin yanzu, wanda ya zarce dala 62,000 a kowane tsabar kuɗi, yana mai cewa ƙimar ta ƙarshe ce. Wadannan musayar suna nuna rarrabuwar kawuna tsakanin ra'ayoyin kudi na gargajiya, suna fifita kadarorin da ake iya gani kamar zinari, da wadanda ke ba da shawarwari ga kudaden dijital a matsayin makomar kudi.
Schiff ya dade yana jayayya cewa Bitcoin yana karkatar da hankali daga ayyukan zinare na baya-bayan nan, wanda ya yi imanin an yi watsi da shi saboda shaharar cryptocurrency. Ya kuma yi iƙirarin cewa Bitcoin yana taimaka wa gazawar manufofin tattalin arziki, musamman na Tarayyar Tarayyar Amurka, wanda in ba haka ba zai fi fitowa fili a kasuwa mai tushen zinari.