Because, sadly, many people will buy the ETF thinking it’s bitcoin, giving up all of bitcoin’s benefits for convenience.
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Ahh I hear you.
The ETF is a NgU lure, trapping people within the fiat banking and political system. Also the risk of paper bitcoin and rug pulls.
I know a few of these people. Hard to convince bankers not to trust banks.
“It’s not really bitcoin”, I say.
“I just want to buy it in my investment account like my Apple stock.”, they respond.
🤷♂️
Yeah they just don’t get Bitcoin at all.
Some of these ETF simps would probably never buy bitcoin without the ETF. That or they wouldn’t until there were major fiat failures that necessitated it and price would be ≈100x what it is today.
But it would hurt seeing all the people who held ETF shares get rugged if fiat abruptly fails and the fund managers with the keys absconded. Or governments confiscate the fund’s Bitcoin.