Bitcoin will gain from distrust in traditional finance, says bank strategist
Will Bitcoin end the dollar’s supremacy one day? Bitcoin (BTC) poses a significant threat to the world’s reserve currency, the United States dollar, according to a strategist at major American investment bank Morgan Stanley.Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, believes that the dollar’s reign is likely to end due to global distrust in traditional finance, while Bitcoin is likely to capitalize on that lack of confidence.In a Dec. 9 article in The Financial Times, Sharma provided a brief outline on the history of the world’s reserve currencies,....
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