Crypto breaks Wall Street’s ETF barrier: A watershed moment or stopgap?

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With the Bitcoin ETFs, investors won’t have to deal with hot/cold storage decisions, crypto exchanges, fraud, etc. “Convenience does the magic here.”
But others, like Arca CEO Rayne Steinberg, had “mixed feelings” about the events. While pleased that a much-awaited crypto investment vehicle finally received regulatory approval — ending eight years of futility on the part of U.S. fund issuers — he had some misgivings about the product that finally met the approval of the SEC, specifically the fact that it was futures-based and didn’t track the price of Bitcoin (BTC) directly. “We do not think a futures ETF is a good way to get Bitcoin exposure,” he said in a blog, adding, “Futures based ETFs work for short term trading, but have massive tracking error issues over long periods, which is what most investors are looking for when it comes to Bitcoin exposure.”Markus Hammer, an attorney and principal at Ham

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