Bitcoin’s massive gain this year has again brought the innovative asset in the purview of mainstream media. The news of Bitcoin’s price breaking $8000 with more than 100% gains has had many financial experts weighing in on it.

Bitcoin is not an entirely unregulated asset as it was in 2017, Bitcoin Futures contracts are being actively traded on CME and other Exchanges all around the world. Reportedly, the daily volume of trading on Bitcoin Futures on CME is above $1 billion.

Mike Novogratz, a Bitcoin perma-bull reiterated the ‘digital gold’ case for Bitcoin in a recent CNBC interview. He said,

“Bitcoin has really won store of value ‘digital gold.’ Gold has an $8.5 trillion market cap. Bitcoin has about $130 billion… got a long room to go.”

Bitcoin’s correlation with other cryptocurrencies might be the only thing that adds burden to its price, currently. The total dominance of Bitcoin over the cryptocurrency markets is around 60%. Mike also emphasized on the growing credibility of Bitcoin in the FinTech industry. Microsoft recently announced an identity tool on the Bitcoin blockchain which established the authority of Bitcoin over other cryptocurrencies.  He said,

“Microsoft and Facebook are One of the biggest companies in the world ‘creditializing’ Bitcoin.” He added, “I think when you look back at 2017. One of the problems was everything was else was trying to bitcoin… Instead of 21 million bitcoins, we had a zillion of them. And that’s how the price collapsed… Bitcoin has become a social construct.”

Furthermore, Bitcoin is at around 40% of its all-time high currently, and it’s market dominance it approximately 60%. If the momentum continues, Bitcoin could soon be looking at a healthy dominance which will open space for successful projects to grow and prosper.

Meltem Demirors, Founder at Coinshares and an analyst, also reiterated the same fact in a separate interview with CNBC fast money. According to her, Microsoft building a product on it and other institutional platforms entering the space are all positive signals for Bitcoin. She pointed out that,

“This years’ narrative is Bitcoin, Bitcoin, and Bitcoin. Its the largest crypto by market cap. Its the asset people know best, and most importantly, Bitcoin has the most secure network.”

She also listed all her reasons which build a strong positive case for Bitcoin in this Twitter thread. Tom Lee, the Co-Founder at Funstrat Global, also emphasized on the same facts in another update from the CNBC futures market. He said,

“Bitcoin’s been rising pretty steadily that that recently looked parabolic. We’ve got the largest crypto-conference in NewYork this week. This year we’re seeing it bringing quality because we don’t have much scams and ICOs… Bitcoin is the epic digital gold.”

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Tom Lee also suggested that Bitcoin could soon retest its all-time high near $20,000. Apart from these more popularly known crypto-traders, Oz Pearlman also bet big on Bitcoin saying it could reach $12000 by January next year.

Do you think as well that Bitcoin is a better replacement for gold or it is just hype? Please share your views with us. 

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Bitcoin is 'Digital Gold', A Fact Now Echoing Across the Financial Investment Industry

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Bitcoin's massive gain this year has again brought the innovative asset in the purview of mainstream media. The news of Bitcoin's price breaking $8000 with more than 100% gains has had many financial experts weighing in on it.

Nivesh Rustgi

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