THELOGICALINDIAN - Intercontinental Exchange ICE agenda asset belvedere Bakkt will accomplish a Bitcoin ETF absolutely bombastic back it launches in November a arresting amusing media analyst has forecast
Commenting on the account the New York Stock Exchange buyer was accommodating with Microsoft, Starbucks and others on a adapted “ecosystem” for agenda assets, Twitter user accepted as Parabolic Trav said that the belvedere – accepted as Bakkt – would accomplish the functions originally advised for an ETF.
“If what I’m compassionate about BAKKT is that I can buy BTC absolute on my abatement brokerage, alongside my banal portfolio, it makes the ETF absolutely redundant,” he wrote August 5.
“…Any mutual/hedge armamentarium could calmly add a BTC allocation alongside equities.”
Cryptocurrency proponents throughout the industry reacted awful absolutely to Bakkt back account of its conception bankrupt backward aftermost week.
CNBC presenter and armamentarium administrator Brian Kelly called the event the “biggest account of the year for Bitcoin,” while Fundstrat Global Advisors arch of analysis Tom Lee singled out Starbucks’ captivation as a “very big deal.”
Kelly’s comments were based on the abstraction that Bakkt would accomplish a Bitcoin ETF added ambrosial to regulators.
Likewise, Trav, who is accepted for actuality infamously bullish on Bitcoin’s future, alleged Bakkt’s appulse “absolutely earth-shattering.”
In the meantime, the project’s ally accept remained air-conditioned about their plans, with Starbucks arresting a abnormally beat agenda in consecutive accessible comments.
“It is important to analyze that we are not accepting agenda assets at Starbucks. Rather the barter will catechumen agenda assets like Bitcoin into US dollars, which can be acclimated at Starbucks,” a agent wrote in emailed comments to Vice.
The aggregation additionally emphasized that customers, adverse to assorted boilerplate account headlines, “will not be able to pay for Frappuccinos with Bitcoin.”
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