The co-founder and CEO of giant asset manager BlackRock, Larry Fink, is saying that there is a “role for Bitcoin” in today’s investment portfolios.
Fink says in a new interview on CNBC that even though he was once a “proud skeptic” of Bitcoin (BTC), he now believes that the flagship crypto asset is worthy of being invested in.
“My opinion five years ago was wrong. Here’s my opinion… I believe Bitcoin is legitimate. I’m not trying to say there’s not been misuses, like everything else. But it is a legitimate financial instrument that allows you to have maybe uncorrelated, non-correlated type of returns.”
According to the BlackRock CEO, Bitcoin is,
“An instrument that you invest in when you’re more frightened, though. It is an instrument [you invest in] when you believe that countries are debasing their currency by excess deficits. And some countries are.
I believe we have countries where you’re frightened of your everyday existence and you have an opportunity to invest in something that is outside your country’s control, then you can have more financial control.”
The BlackRock co-founder says that the adoption of Bitcoin as an asset class will increase going forward.
“I believe you’re going to see that [Bitcoin] as one of the asset classes that we all look at. I look at it as digital gold as I said before and I do believe there’s a real need for everyone to look at it as one alternative…
I look at it as a vehicle in which you’re expressing your financial acumen in something that you’re more frightened of the world, you’re more frightened of your existence. And I believe there’s a great industrial use for it. And I think a lot of people are missing that.”
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