As for Gates, he said he would short it if he could. This is an interesting change in his view from a few years ago.
This could be interpreted two ways:
He's afraid to short it but doesn't think it would work because he would lose money because he believes "bitcoin is unstoppable".
Something else is preventing him from actually doing this and he thinks a short would now be profitable because he's changed his mind about the stopability of bitcoin.
https://www.ccn.com/put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is-winkelvoss-dares-bill-gates-to-short-bitcoin/
Bill Gates is full of it. If I had that much money I would have bought at least 1000 of every coin already. There seems to be a prevailing theme: Blockchain is good but crypto is bad. I'm starting to get the sick feeling that all these rich assholes who are bearish on crypto know what they are doing and want humanity to remain enslaved by the old system.