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Cathie Wood: Why Bitcoin is the Superior "Digital Gold"
In ARK Invest’s “Big Ideas 2026,” Cathie Wood once again articulated her core view on Bitcoin: Bitcoin is not only a risk asset but also possesses long-term hedging and store-of-value properties.
She pointed out that Bitcoin has a very low correlation with gold throughout entire economic cycles, which means it does not simply replicate gold’s price logic. However, on the supply side, Bitcoin’s advantages are even more evident — its issuance rate is mathematically strictly limited to 21 million coins, whereas gold can be increased in supply under price incentives.
It is this “impossibility of artificial acceleration” in scarcity that gives Bitcoin the potential to become an important store of value in future intergenerational wealth transfer. In Cathie Wood’s view, the story of Bitcoin as digital gold has only just begun.