Bitcoin Flips Visa And Elon Musks Tesla As BTC Price Finally Clutches $50,000
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows helped aid the oldest cryptos surge above the $49,000 mark. Bitcoins move higher makes its market capitalization bigger than that of Wall Street stalwarts, including Elon Musks electric carmaker Tesla and American payment provider Visa.
BTC Ranks No.8 Among Global Assets
Off a weeks-long sprint of 16.7% gains, Bitcoin is now more valuable than some of Wall Streets favourite companies. Bitcoin currently boasts a price of $49,893, putting the top cryptos market cap at $979 billion.
Were BTC a U.S.-listed stock, it would rank as the eighth-largest by market cap, leapfrogging Wall Street giants such as Tesla, Berkshire Hathaway, and Visa, data from CompaniesMarketCap suggests.
Tesla sits at a $611 billion valuation; Berkshire Hathaway at $859 billion; Visa, meanwhile, boasts a $562.51 billion valuation.
Bitcoins ascent is particularly notable in comparison to Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, which holds a modest 34th spot out of 100 assets. Bitcoins growing influence and, by extension, the wider crypto market, on the global financial stage becomes even more apparent because of this development.
Bitcoin Ascendance Fuels Lofty Predictions
Bitcoin smashed its current lifetime high of $69,044 back in November 2021, during the last parabolic bull market. At the time, the global cryptocurrency market cap momentarily topped $3 trillion. At publication time, the global market cap is sitting at $1.93 trillion.
Many crypto enthusiasts are hopeful that Bitcoins recent upswing largely fueled by mammoth United States spot BTC ETF inflows and positive market sentiment ahead of April halving will put the stubborn crypto winter to bed and trigger an unprecedented boom for the crypto industry.
Case in point, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju forecasts a phenomenal 160% growth for the Bitcoin price, anticipating a $112,000 price tag this year or a worst case scenario figure of at least $55,000.
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