Mark Cuban on his cryptocurrency portfolio: ‘I own a lot of Ethereum because I think it’s the closest to a true currency’

Mark Cuban on his cryptocurrency portfolio: ‘I own a lot of Ethereum because I think it’s the closest to a true currency’

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is bullish on the future of cryptocurrency and frequently compares blockchain technology to the early days of the internet.

That's why, over the years, Cuban held onto the few digital coins he bought in the "early days," Cuban said on a recent episode of "The Delphi Podcast." Currently, his portfolio allocation is broken down as: "60% bitcoin, 30% Ethereum and 10% the rest."

Bitcoin, created in 2009, is the largest cryptocurrency by market value, but is appealing to Cuban as a store of value rather than a currency.

In 2012, "people said bitcoin is a currency, and I'm like, 'It's just not going to work.' But, the entire time, I said it was a store of value where, if you could get people to believe that it was a better alternative than gold, because of its algorithmic scarcity, the price is going to go up," he said.

According to Cuban, bitcoin is "a better alternative to gold, and it's going to continue [to be]," he said. "That's why I own bitcoin and why I never sold it."

Cuban is also very interested in Ethereum “” the blockchain where ether, the second largest cryptocurrency below bitcoin, is built “” mainly due to the