{"id":1017707,"date":"2026-06-30T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017707"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:22:48","slug":"billionaire-who-predicted-the-dot-com-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/billionaire-who-predicted-the-dot-com-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire who predicted the dot com bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran investor and billionaire Jeremy Grantham criticised Bitcoin saying that the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency will \u201ccertainly go to zero\u201d over time. Grantham, who earned recognition for warning about the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the US housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis, made the remarks during a recent podcast interview and repeated them in a television appearance a day later. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Steven Bartlett\u2019s The Diary of a CEO podcast, Grantham described Bitcoin as an asset with no real economic purpose. He said it serves mainly as a tool for speculation and questioned its value as both an investment and a form of payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran investor and billionaire Jeremy Grantham criticised Bitcoin saying that the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency will \u201ccertainly go to zero\u201d over time. Grantham, who earned recognition for warning about the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the US housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis, made the remarks during a recent podcast interview and repeated them in a television appearance a day later. Speaking on Steven Bartlett\u2019s The Diary of a CEO podcast, Grantham described Bitcoin as an asset with no real economic purpose. He said it serves mainly as a tool for speculation and questioned its value as both an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017725,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017707\/revisions\/1017725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}