Stephen Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Asia, believes that the supremacy of the U.S. dollar is likely to be challenged and the greenback could decline by as much as 35%. This impending dollar weakness could benefit gold and cryptocurrencies.
Several large traders have been accumulating Bitcoin (BTC) and according to on-chain data this has boosted the number of whales — traders holding 1,000 or more of the top-ranked cryptocurrency on CoinMarketCap — to 1,882. Usually, large traders build huge positions when they expect a sustained uptrend.