Can Bakkt Make Bitcoin the New Global Currency?

What are the chances that Bakkt will succeed if it receives CFTC regulatory approval? Much of the odds turn on the experience of ICE’s visionary CEO Jeffrey Sprecher and his considerable exchange infrastructure. Under Sprecher’s leadership, ICE has amassed an extraordinary record of creating, revitalizing and optimizing regulated leading financial exchanges, including:

ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Futures Europe, two of the world’s largest commodities futures exchanges
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the world’s largest stock market, trading 1.5 billion shares a day – or nearly one-in-four of all equity transactions
NYSE American, the leading platform for mid-cap companies
Arca, the world’s largest marketplace for ETFs
New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), the world leader in almost all categories of futures for “soft” agricultural commodities such as sugar, coffee and cotton
No one is infallible. But if any one individual has the potential to transform Bitcoin