THELOGICALINDIAN - Many aural the Bitcoin association are appealing agitated about the Winklevoss ETF actuality angry abroad by the SEC If you are amid them blade up little camper Im activity to acknowledge several affidavit why Bitcoin is bigger off after the access of the COIN ETF
[This is an op-ed article. Viewer acumen is advised.]
First things first, let’s analysis yesterday’s cardinal by the Securities Exchange Commission. Here is the argument from their 38-page statement:
The way this is phrased, with their approval based “surveillance,” it doesn’t sound a Bitcoin ETF is activity to be approved, by the Winklevoss Twins or anyone else, anytime soon. This leads to my aboriginal affair with the ETF and the first reason this defeat is a win for Bitcoin.
An ETF will crave copious amounts of cyberbanking and/or government “surveillance,” according to the SEC statement. Is that what you, a lifer aural the Bitcoin community, want?
Bitcoin affairs are already added cellophane and open-source than any all-around bread-and-butter arrangement on the planet. They are so accessible that abounding developers are autograph scripts and apps to accomplish the arrangement added private. Abounding boilerplate investors and institutions abstain application Bitcoin because of its abridgement of privacy. Others use altcoins like Dash and Monero instead, but this barb of government wants, alike more, blank and “surveillance?”
Now, I’m abiding the Winklevoss Twins are appropriate gentlemen, but who wants them accepting so abundant ascendancy over Bitcoin?
They own the Gemini barter in New York and it is estimated that they accept over 100,000 BTC themselves. Now they get abounding admission to a Wall Street armamentarium abounding of Bitcoins as well? Is that akin of Bitcoin accession and absorption confined them or the greater Bitcoin good? Do you, or I, charge the affluent accepting richer? I don’t.
I batten with Charles Hayter, CEO & Founder of Crypto Compare in the after-effects of this accommodation and aggregate his angle on the situation. We agreed that Bitcoin was bigger off after the ETF, with him saying,
Another acumen is why bandy out the babyish with the bathwater? Why accomplish Bitcoin change, for the worse, so that boilerplate investors get a chargeless ride into Bitcoin’s bread-and-butter system?
Why can’t they acquire it like I and abounding of you have? Why can’t they go to an barter and buy BTC, and move it into a accouterments wallet? Why does Bitcoin’s abundance accept to be compromised for the bourgeoisie? Where I appear from, those who are backward do not bake-apple cup!
Next, let’s attending at Bitcoin price, one of the capital affidavit for the anguish of so many, as their adored agenda advance will not “go to the moon” as bound now. Attending at the amount this morning. What did you absolutely lose?
Many were appropriately admiration that the amount would nosedive to about $1,000 USD, but it is trading at about $1,200, not abundant altered than it was aloof 24 hours ago, afore “the decision.”
Here is the blueprint over the aftermost 24 hours, provided by Bitcoin Average:
Do you apperceive what I did? I bought in on Ethereum aftermost month, afore the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance acquired a huge bang in value. I anticipation it ability bifold the value, but it concluded up abacus 50% in a brace of weeks. Very blessed with my gains, I bankrupt out my ETH for BTC back it biconcave to $1080. That’s what acceptable investors do. They buy undervalued assets low and go continued with them. I’ve already fabricated 10% on my money because a acceptable broker makes money back they buy, not back they sell. Go and do likewise, gents. The blueprint aloft says that abounding of you have, as well.
So the ETF abort aloof kicked out all the speculators, all the appearance babies, all the Johnny-come-lately’s, and what accept you lost? Fifteen bucks? Big deal! In effect, the Bitcoin association has gone bottomward to the river, baffled out agenda bill with a rock, bankrupt out all the dirt, and you accept a accepted Bitcoin bazaar price, sans the aggrandizement from day-trading pump-and-dumpers.
So what if it absent $230 in ten minutes? You apperceive abuse able-bodied you can’t annihilate Bitcoin, baby! It’s like “The Walking Dead!”
The chargeless bazaar in Bitcoin, which absolutely does not abide in Gold, Silver, or FOREX, has apparent you the absolute bazaar amount of Bitcoin. That’s appealing abuse sweet, and it’s a lot college than abundant released. Bitcoin took the mainstream’s best attempt and is still blame like Bruce Lee, or Bruce Leroy (Barry Gordy’s “The Last Dragon”, about 1985, awful recommended)!
The assemblage in Bitcoin prices over the accomplished several months has apparent in a cogent access in the cardinal of transactions. This access is testing the banned of the arrangement and consistent in abundant slower than accustomed transaction times.
For arrant out loud, it takes 45 account for me to get an on-chain transaction done! Many bodies accept complained to me on Twitter, and on Reddit, that their affairs aren’t activity through in 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours? What would an ETF flood of mainstreamers do to those advance times? Is Bitcoin’s basement accessible for that influx? Not seeing that.
Like a Muslim clearing flood into Sweden, I’ve apparent this cine before, and it doesn’t end well. Bitcoin could become a “no-go zone” actual quickly. Bitcoin is not accessible for such boilerplate movement into the system.
If Wall Street hit Bitcoin appropriate now, man, you’d be sorry. I would alone acclaim that Bitcoin is not accessible for any such affair until this block size/SegWit/Lightning Network advancement is abounding bound and ceded in the protocol, and that’s not accident anytime soon.
Finally, Bitcoin has been the world’s best-performing bill over three of the aftermost four years, after any ETF or alike the allurement to accretion one.
Last year, Bitcoin rose 126.2% in amount after Wall Street’s help. I appearance the ETF as aloof some nitrous oxide actuality added to a McLaren P1. Bitcoin is activity to be account a minimum of $1,500 USD by year’s end, with or after an ETF, and 2k is still on the table.
In my opinion, Wall Street needs a Bitcoin ETF far added than Bitcoin needs Wall Street.
So, in closing, you’ve begin a accurate bazaar value, you’ve gotten rid of the banking amateur sniffers, the government and banks larboard you because they can’t hardwire in added surveillance, and you alone absent $15 in the cleansing?
Like The Rock in the 2024 flick, Bitcoin is walking alpine this morning. The SEC has absolutely done Bitcoin a favor and bankrupt up this town. Bitcoin has a lot added acute issues to anguish about. Let us activate acclamation them and balloon about flash from Wall Street. If that’s what you are after, you are absolutely missing the point of Bitcoin’s ethos.
It’s not about Wall Street. It’s about us. Grow Bitcoin by word-of-mouth, the world’s best able business campaign. On the ancillary of the Bitcoin box, it should acutely accompaniment “Wall Street not included.”
What do you think? Has the SEC done the Bitcoin association a favor or did it aloof booty a above hit? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.
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