Benefits:

• produces a short-term spike in BTC price that settles down rapidly. • ETF approval will turn major institutions into bitcoin marketers. • Regulated options managed by genuinely reputable entities like Blackrock could starve sketchier operations, broadly reducing fraud.

Risks:

• The rising price of bitcoin, could pull other crypto prices up – becoming a catalyst for an unsustainable crypto-bubble • Appreciating crypto prices almost inevitably attract new waves of fraud and even crime • ETFs might increase overall crypto market volatility in some ways. The ETF will be held by many less committed investors. That means more bitcoin will be available to be liquidated nearly instantaneously in moments of market uncertainty. • Transaction volumes ultimately generate fees for bitcoin, supporting hashpower and the security of the chain. If everyone instead just parked their bitcoin in an ETF, Bitcoin itself could be threatened. • Bitcoin generates no native yield, so if you’re paying an ETF to manage your coins, you depend entirely on price appreciation to generate returns, and they must outpace whatever fees you’re paying.
My crystall ball says it's because of full moon.
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Negative, it's because there's no 'Y' in the month.
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Nice use of a link description! As far as Hayes theory, I think it's some wishful thinking.
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You like Marvin - the depressed robot's big calculation don't you...
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Oh, nutz!
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I'm sure there is capital flight in the region going into Bitcoin, we saw that with Russia and Ukraine too so maybe it is part of it, but I do think the I'm going to front run an ETF crowd is trying to get in on a position because if a fake news article can pump it like that, what would legit news do?
I think that there's also certain countries where bitcoin is reaching new all time highs so for them its bull market time, so might as well jump on board
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yeah, it being related to global instability seemed pretty obvious. Only America narcissists would think otherwise
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I've wondered this as well. The more time you have with Bitcoin the more you realize there never is a singular reason. Holders are always a factor.
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He also shilled an AI crypto scam in the newsletter before that so take it with a grain of salt.
Arthur does not get a pass
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Hey @K00b, @ekzyis what's going on here (see @siggy47's comment).
This is the second time one of my old link comments has carried over to another of my link posts.
I caught a similar one yesterday - this one went under my radar...
Any ideas?
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 29 Oct 2023
I am not sure I understand what you mean.
You're saying that you added exactly this link description in a previous link post and it was reused in this post? Maybe the value does not get automatically deleted in the text input box so it will still be used for the next link if you don't delete it manually.
Or do you really mean a link comment?
I haven't found a duplicate comment or a previous link with the same description in your history though. So can you give examples with links (linking to the duplicate comments / descriptions)?
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I've just remembered that I'd checked the link for dupes as a link post (before turning it into a discussion post). The text was there from then.
Therefore, 'Call off the devs!'
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