Wood believes institutional investors will allocate about $6 trillion to Bitcoin by 2030, while Chhugani at Bernstein estimates a slightly more conservative $3 trillion by 2033. For context, spot Bitcoin ETFs have accumulated $63 billion in assets, which is about 1% of Wood's prediction and 2% of Chhugani's prediction.

In the last five trading days, spot bitcoin ETFs have seen net inflows of more than $2.1 billion, with BlackRock accounting for half of those sales. Of the 80% of direct investors buying IBIT, BlackRock's chief investment officer of ETFs and index investments says 75% had never before owned an iShare.

BlackRock's spot Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) is bringing in a crowd Wall Street isn’t used to seeing. A ton of first-timers who are just crypto investors.