Ark Invest CEO Says Impossible to Shut Down Bitcoin — Regulators Will Become ...
The CEO of Ark Investment Management (Ark Invest), Cathie Wood, says regulators cannot shut down bitcoin. She added that they will become more friendly towards cryptocurrencies over time. Wood is not the only one who thinks that governments cannot shut down bitcoin. Regulators Cannot Shut Down Bitcoin, Says Ark’s CEO Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood shared her view on bitcoin, its regulation, and environmental impact at the Consensus 2021 conference Thursday. The CEO said that bitcoin is “already on its way and it’ll be impossible to shut it down.” She added that....
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Multiple efforts to ban Bitcoin couldn’t stop the largest cryptocurrency from becoming a $1-trillion asset earlier this year. While Bitcoin (BTC) increasingly falls under the scrutiny of regulators worldwide, Ark Investment founder and CEO Cathie Wood is confident that regulators will be unable to shut down the world’s largest cryptocurrency.Wood said that Bitcoin is “already on its way and it’ll be impossible to shut it down,” Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Global regulators “will be a little more friendly over time” toward cryptocurrencies due to the fear of missing out on opportunities....
China has shut down many underground cryptocurrency apps. A total of 13 underground trading applications have shut down after putting a ban on them for almost one year. As suggested by reports, China, which happens to be the world’s second-largest economy, has called crypto-related transactions illegal. China regulators have taken down 23 crypto-media websites and […]
Back in 2018, Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood infamously predicted that Tesla shares would reach $4,000 in a matter of a few years. Investors and critics ostracized her high-conviction bet, as at the time, Tesla was facing a major liquidity crunch and on the brink of bankruptcy. It seemed like an impossible task for the automaker to appreciate by 1,200% when it could barely stay solvent. But as luck would have it, Wood’s bet on […]
David Andolfatto, Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, is not quick to dismiss Bitcoin. Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis David Andolfatto released a report on Bitcoin (PDF) yesterday, and it gave the Bitcoin community another peak into what financial regulators really think about cryptocurrency. The report is 36 pages long, but one of the most interesting slides in the report has to do with Bitcoin's effect on taxation. It talks about how the recent IRS ruling could limit the bitcoin's attractiveness as a currency, but the St. Louis Fed also....
Many in the financial establishment in industrialized economies see bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with skepticism, as a speculative and highly volatile trend that can only end badly. U.S. and European regulators have issued dire warnings about the perils of crypto trading. In China, regulators clamp down hard on crypto mining, forcing crypto companies to shut […]