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Sunday Nov 23 2025 01:10
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Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, recently stated that the primary driver behind institutional investor interest in Bitcoin isn't its utility for daily payments. He emphasized that the prevailing focus remains on viewing Bitcoin as "digital gold" or a store of value.
Mitchnick characterized the concept of Bitcoin serving as a global payment network as an "out-of-the-money-option-value upside." He added that realizing this potential requires substantial advancements in Bitcoin's scalability, along with the development of solutions like the Lightning Network. He also suggested that, currently, such scenarios remain "a little bit more speculative."
In contrast, Mitchnick highlighted the "huge success" stablecoins have achieved within the payments sector. He affirmed that they "have massive product market fit as a payment instrument and as a way of moving value around efficiently."
Mitchnick believes that stablecoins possess the potential for significant expansion, moving beyond their current uses in cryptocurrency trading and decentralized finance (DeFi) to encompass retail remittance payments, multinational corporate transactions, and capital market settlement activities.
In a related development, Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, stated that the "scaling faster" of stablecoins is the reason behind her recent reduction in Bitcoin's 2030 price forecast. She explained that stablecoins are "usurping part of the role that we thought that Bitcoin would play."
Reeve Collins, co-founder of Tether, shared his optimistic vision for stablecoins, predicting that "all currency" will become stablecoins by 2030 as part of a broader shift involving the migration of all forms of finance to the blockchain.
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