Shortly after Bitcoin reached an all-time high of above $44,000 on Monday, the cryptocurrency continued the rally soaring above $48,000 on Tuesday morning.The Bitcoin rally followed news that Elon Musk’s Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) said it bought $1.5 billion of the digital token. Tesla also said that it will start accepting Bitcoin as payment soon.
“You’re going to see every company in America do the same thing [as Tesla],” Novogratz, the founder of crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital, told Bloomberg.
Consequently, investors hurried to invest in the digital asset — driving BTC price to a new-all time high. However, the cryptocurrency plummeted 6% to $46,200 as of 9 am EST.
In an interview with CNBC, Vijay Ayyar, head of Asia Pacific at cryptocurrency exchange Luno in Singapore said, “One by one, corporations will add Bitcoin to their balance sheets and it couldn’t get bigger than Tesla. Imagine if 100 companies start putting even 1% into Bitcoin, what that is going to do to demand and supply.”
Bitcoin could reach $60,000 thanks to Musk’s Tesla
Furthermore, many analysts said that there is a growing institutional interest in the cryptocurrency. They suggest that it will eventually push the digital token’s price to $100,000 in 2021. Michael Novogratz told Bloomberg TV on Monday “the bitcoin price could more than double to $100,000 by the end of 2021 as big-name firms get behind the currency.”
