{"id":84703,"date":"2025-08-20T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=84703"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:00:46","slug":"harvard-professor-and-ex-imf-chief-economist-offers-excuses-for-misjudging-bitcoin-a-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=84703","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Professor and Ex-IMF Chief Economist Offers Excuses for Misjudging Bitcoin a Decade Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Harvard Professor and Ex-IMF Chief Economist Kenneth Rogoff Offers Excuses for Misjudging Bitcoin a Decade Ago While Promoting New Book\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/harvard-university.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">In a recent social media post, Kenneth Rogoff, a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reflected on his earlier prediction that bitcoin was more likely to be valued at $100 than $100,000. Rogoff, a Professor of Economics at Harvard University, acknowledged that he underestimated the U.S. government\u2019s willingness to implement sensible cryptocurrency [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent social media post, Kenneth Rogoff, a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reflected on his earlier prediction that bitcoin was more likely to be valued at $100 than $100,000. Rogoff, a Professor of Economics at Harvard University, acknowledged that he underestimated the U.S. government\u2019s willingness to implement sensible cryptocurrency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}