Bitcoin may have recently hit a new all-time high above $90,000, but ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood says it still has a “long way to go.”
She pointed out that Ark was the first public asset manager to gain exposure to Bitcoin in 2015 at $250, “and we still at $90,000 think we have a long way to go,” she said in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Nov. 15.
Wood said the continued momentum would be driven by “regulatory relief,” one of the most important things expected from the new United States administration.
She said that Bitcoin (BTC) is now being viewed as a new asset class. “It is a new asset class and what that means is institutions, and asset allocators are saying ‘this asset is behaving differently from all our other assets and we need to include it.’”
Wood also reiterated her price prediction over the next five years:
“We have a 2030 target in our base case, it’s around $650,000, in our bull case, it’s between $1 million and $1.5 million.”
Cathie Wood on Squawk Box. Source: CNBC
Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high of $93,477 on Nov. 13, according to CoinGecko. It has yet to enter into price discovery above this level and pulled back slightly a few days after the peak, but had returned above $90,000 during early trading on Nov. 18.
On Nov. 16, Wood said that based on onchain analytics and analysis, “the bull market in Bitcoin is in good shape,” before adding:
“After its halving in April, growth in the supply of Bitcoin dropped to 0.9%, below the long-term growth in the supply of gold for the first time!”
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In a video posted on X on Nov. 11, Wood said that “defanging” finance regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, combined with a focus on technologically enabled innovation in artificial intelligence, digital assets, and other fields, is “likely to turbocharge the US economy.”
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