$6.7 billion Ark says Bitcoin and crypto to be worth $25 trillion by 2030
According to the CEO of global investment management firm ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto currency sector could reach the value of a quarter of a quadrillion in the next seven years, considering the speed at which the industry and its wider adoption are growing. Commenting on spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications and the crypto ecosystem, Wood said she expected it to be worth $25 trillion by 2030, as she explained in the interview with CNBC’s journalists at the ‘Squawk Box’ show aired on November 14. Flight to safety of crypto According to her, traditional markets are witnessing a “flight to quality,” as Larry Fink called it, or “flight to safety,” as ARK Invest calls it, i.e., into the crypto currency sphere “because there’s no counter-party risk in Bitcoin” and it has demonstrated strength against the banking sector. “Look at what happened during the regional bank crisis. Bitcoin went from $19,000 to nearly $30,000 as the KRE, the regiona...