Great interviews recently with Brandon (Green Candles) & with Breedlove.
Has the launch of the ETFs changed the temperature in the room when speaking with people in tradfi? As bitcoiners, I think we suffer from being in an echo-chamber. Are the suits still saying the same stuff as they were saying post-FTX collapse, or have we made progress?
(Not that it really matters... tick tock next block)
this territory is moderated
Oh, it absolutely has. I talked to quite a few wealth managers, including some financial advisors who serve both normal retail and high net worth clients and what I found is that there was a lot of institutional resistance to bitcoin before the ETFs because it wasn't a "approved product by the SEC".
Now with the advent of the ETFS, the view towards bitcoin has changed quite a bit and it has seen as much more investable and a good alternative as a store of value.
The issue still remains that bitcoin is largely seen as a risk asset. Essentially most wealth managers think that it's a levered version of the NASDAQ or SPY, and so they might be willing to throw some money into it, but their view is that once we enter an economic crisis, bitcoin will collapse in value. I think the real red pill remains to be seen which is where tradfi realizes that bitcoin is both a risk on and risk off asset, basically it goes up, no matter what. That's when we get real FOMO...
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