The Importance of a Spot Bitcoin ETF

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The holy grail here would be to have a physically backed spot Bitcoin ETF. Spot Bitcoin is stored in cold storage somewhere and you have the shares of theETF are a right to the underlying asset In this case spot Bitcoin. So we want spot Bitcoin because it's just a much better user experience, right?

Today we're joined by James Seyffart, a research analyst at Bloomberg who's the perfect person to answer our questions regarding the convergence of crypto and ETFs.

We dive into: - The probabilities of a Blackrock Bitcoin ETF and why - Important dates in which the SEC will need to give us answers - Neutrality, or lack thereof around the ETF approval process

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0:00 Intro 7:44 What is an ETF? 13:00 ETF History Lesson 17:40 ETF Market Size and Holders 22:46 Types of ETFs 27:02 Where Are These Assets Stores 34:04 Who Approves ETFs? 40:08 Neutrality Of Regulators 44:16 Types of Bitcoin ETFs 49:17 Reasons For Rejection 55:12 Does Gary Just Hate Crypto? 58:13 Does Blackrock Change Things? 1:04:46 Will Blackrock Get Approved? 1:15:20 Possible Approval Dates 1:19:09 Lack of ETFs to Blame For Crypto Fallout? 1:28:38 Why Should we Care? 1:34:14 Risks and Disclaimers

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James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JSeyff

Trillions Podcast: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/series/trillions

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