The long-awaited launch of bitcoin spot ETFs in the USA this 12 months helped engender a wave of optimism that the worth of the well-known cryptocurrency would shortly admire. The logic was easy: With an easy, low-cost avenue now obtainable for normal traders to buy bitcoin, the supply-demand curve would shift and the worth of every bitcoin would rise.
However the response has been considerably combined. Whereas the worth of bitcoin has practically doubled previously 12 months to round $43,000 in the present day, it has largely traded sideways in current weeks. Was the hype and ensuing response one other instance of the outdated Wall Avenue maxim, “Buy the rumor, sell the news”?
To be trustworthy, we’re checking the flows into and out of spot bitcoin ETFs extra ceaselessly than we need to admit, however we nonetheless wished to be taught extra. So, we requested TechCrunch readers in the event that they meant to purchase bitcoin through one of many new spot ETFs, whether or not they owned bitcoin elsewhere, and what affect they anticipated these new investing autos to have on its worth and on crypto.
A number of dozen replies from founders and operators later, we discovered some attention-grabbing developments. A couple of quarter of respondents to our little, unscientific survey reported that they don’t intend to purchase bitcoin through an ETF, and already personal bitcoin elsewhere. The place are people holding their cash? All over the place, it seems: Self-custody, Coinbase, KuCoin, all types of places. Quite impressively, Dara Khan, the top of selling at First rate DAO’s bitcoin, stated her pockets ended up on the “bottom of the ocean, lost it in a boating accident :(.”
