$50 Billion VanEck: Don’t Worry – Bitcoin’s Not Going Away
VanEck, the major New York City exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider with $47 billion worth of assets under management, remains confident that despite its fall from above $19,500 to its current mark near $4,000, “Bitcoin is not going away.”
Bitcoin’s Hitting Singles – Not Home Runs
In a note to investors Monday, the company’s Director for Digital Asset Strategy at VanEck, Gabor Gurbacs, said that rather than expecting a decisive breakthrough or big “home run” for cryptocurrencies in 2019, look for the industry to continue hitting a number of “singles” with incremental, but major hits:
“With bitcoin falling from $19,500 to $3,000, some of us may hope that this was indeed a fad and was safely behind us. Yet, there are solid developments from some major companies. The following is a list of recent singles, including announcements, launches, and events that collectively, can contribute to building out the digital assets markets.”
Gurbacs points to: Square Cash App’s bitcoin integration, states like Ohio accepting bitcoin for taxes, Samsung Galaxy S10’s crypto integrations, Robinhood’s BitLicense in New York, the expansion of bitcoin derivatives, NASDAQ collaborations, a Swiss crypto basket ETP, and Facebook’s entry to crypto.
VanEck Digital Assets Chief Writes the Anti-‘Crypto Obituary’
There’s been a long-running joke at the website 99Bitcoins, where the proprietors are keeping a log of every “bitcoin obituary” published in major publications since 2010.
There are currently 348 obituaries, but bitcoin is still going strong. Monday’s note from VanEck about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is the anti-bitcoin obituary.
