The founder of the People's Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, said that he supports Bitcoin and does not object to the introduction of cryptocurrencies into the country's economy. Bernier tweeted this week that cryptocurrencies are a new way to counter the actions of central banks that are destroying money and the economy.
Rick Rieder, a top manager at the large investment company Blackrock, has suggested that Bitcoin will grow strongly in the near future, despite the recent drop in the cryptocurrency market. Rick Rieder was featured on CNBC's Squawk Box this week.
Despite the consolidation of Bitcoin in recent weeks, Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky is still confident that the price of BTC will reach $ 140,000 or even $ 160,000 by the end of the year. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Alex Mashinsky stated that the main purpose of Bitcoin is to store wealth.
Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead believes that the launch of the second version of Ethereum will help ETH surpass BTC and become the largest cryptocurrency.
Former US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin has changed his hostility towards Bitcoin to a more loyal one. However, he himself is not going to invest in cryptocurrencies. The administration of former US President Donald Trump was known for its disdain for cryptocurrencies, and Trump called Bitcoin a "scam."