James Wo, the founder and chief executive of crypto investment firm DFG, says bitcoin remains the dominant institutional asset in crypto — and ether is unlikely to reach the same status anytime soon.

Speaking to CoinDesk at the Proof of Talk conference in Paris, Wo rejected Bitmine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee’s big prediction that ether would hit $250,000, arguing that Ethereum lacks the same consensus and institutional recognition that have formed around bitcoin.

“I totally disagree with him,” Wo said.

“Bitcoin has a very strong consensus. If you talk to everyone who is an early backer… they believe in bitcoin. Now, beyond the early backing of bitcoin, all the people in crypto, and also traditional finance people, are…