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ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood Predicts When Bitcoin (BTC) Would Reach $1,000,000

Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of the investment management company, ARK Invest, has reiterated her aggressively bullish prediction for Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market cap.

In a new interview with Bloomberg, Wood was asked whether Ark Invest is still on its $1 million BTC prediction. In an affirmative response, she said the flagship cryptocurrency could surpass $1 million by 2030.

Cathie Wood said, “Oh yes. More than $1 million… by 2030.” This represents an over 4,600% increase from current prices. At the time of press, Bitcoin is trading at $20,626, according to CoinMarketCap.

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Bitcoin Adoption by Institutional Investors

In the course of the interview, ARK Invest CEO also discussed the adoption of Bitcoin by institutional investors. She said the current bear market, which resulted in the drop of Bitcoin’s value by about 70% from its all-time high is helping to boost the interest of institutions in the digital asset.

Cathie Wood noted:

 “It does appear that institutions are moving in. They’re taking this price decline from nearly $70,000 to roughly $20,000 as an opportunity to move into a new asset class…

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“In 2018 Cambridge Associates, which is a consultant for the institutional space, basically said to its clients, ‘okay you may not like this thing called Bitcoin, it may sound like a Ponzi scheme to you, but it’s acting like a new asset class.’

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And that got their antenna up because what institutional investment managers cannot miss is a new asset class that will diversify the portfolio, meaning lower the correlation of the returns. And Bitcoin is doing that.”


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Tobi Loba
Tobi Loba
Tobi Loba is a passionate writer with a vast interest in the stock market. She joined the crypto ecosystem about three years ago and has written lots of ebooks and articles in relation to cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. Tobi Loba earned her degree at the University of Ibadan.
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