{"id":73859,"date":"2026-02-25T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73859"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:01:34","slug":"bitcoin-is-flat-out-better-than-gold-cathie-wood-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73859","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Is Flat Out Better Than Gold, Cathie Wood Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ark Invest has been putting real money where its mouth is. In a single day \u2014 February 12 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ark-invest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the firm<\/a> snapped up shares across three separate companies tied to the crypto space.<\/p>\n<p>According to trading disclosures, Ark <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptorank.io\/news\/feed\/62a5c-ark-invest-bitmine-bullish-purchase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">purchased<\/a> 212,314 shares of Bitmine worth roughly $4.2 million, 74,323 shares of Bullish valued at about $2.4 million, and 174,767 shares of Robinhood totaling nearly $12.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>These weren\u2019t small, cautious moves. They were deliberate bets made during a stretch when Bitcoin has been losing ground.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-666320\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a_8613b8.png?resize=511%2C343\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"343\"><\/p>\n<h2>The Numbers Tell An Uncomfortable Truth<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bitcoin<\/a> is down 26% so far this year. Gold, by comparison, has climbed 19% over the same period. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was changing hands at $63,200 while gold traded at around $3,180 per troy ounce.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures don\u2019t exactly support the case for dumping the old safe haven in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bloomingbit.io\/feed\/news\/106624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the new one<\/a> \u2014 at least not right now. The gap between what Cathie Wood believes and what the market is actually doing has never been more visible.<\/p>\n<p>Wood isn\u2019t backing down. In a recent Bloomberg interview, the Ark Invest founder called Bitcoin \u201chands down\u201d better than <a href=\"https:\/\/goldprice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gold<\/a> \u2014 a strong claim for an asset that has spent most of this year sliding.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cathie Wood: Bitcoin is \u201chands down\u201d better than Gold. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38LYF4IcaF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/38LYF4IcaF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Altcoin Daily (@AltcoinDaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AltcoinDaily\/status\/2026030748357333024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her argument isn\u2019t built on this month\u2019s price chart. It\u2019s built on where she thinks money is headed over the next decade. Reports say she views Bitcoin as a hedge that works in both inflationary and deflationary conditions, a flexibility she believes gold cannot match in the same way.<\/p>\n<h2>Younger Money Is Moving Differently<\/h2>\n<p>Part of Wood\u2019s conviction rests on who is doing the buying \u2014 and who isn\u2019t. Institutional exposure to Bitcoin is still being built out, she noted, while younger investors are increasingly choosing digital assets over physical bullion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/zFhXjIt3\/\" width=\"2048\" height=\"985\"><\/p>\n<p>Gold\u2019s buyer base is mature and well established. Bitcoin\u2019s is still forming. That distinction matters to Wood because it suggests the bulk of Bitcoin\u2019s demand hasn\u2019t arrived yet. Early adoption, in her reading, means there\u2019s still a long runway ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ark\u2019s portfolio reflects that view. Bullish has climbed to the ninth-largest holding in the firm\u2019s ARKF fund, carrying a 3.4% weighting valued at close to $30 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ark also holds positions in Block, Circle, and Coinbase \u2014 a collection of bets that together paint a picture of a firm fully committed to the idea that crypto-linked companies will be worth far more in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>A Long Game In A Short-Term Market<\/p>\n<p>The tension Wood is navigating is real. Gold is winning 2025 so far. Bitcoin is not. But Ark\u2019s buying activity suggests the firm sees that gap not as a reason to pull back, but as a window.<\/p>\n<p>Reports note that Wood and her team remain focused on adoption curves and structural shifts rather than quarterly returns.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Kanchanara on Unsplash, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ark Invest has been putting real money where its mouth is. In a single day \u2014 February 12 \u2014 the firm snapped up shares across three separate companies tied to the crypto space. According to trading disclosures, Ark purchased 212,314 shares of Bitmine worth roughly $4.2 million, 74,323 shares of Bullish valued at about $2.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-73859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}