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So "winning" for Bitcoin has now come to mean becoming a boring traditional security that doesn't do much of anything else? That's awfully different from what 99.9% of Bitcoin optimists have spent years claiming the future would be.

Authorizing Bitcoin ETFs does absolutely nothing to revolutionize payments or finance, and is the only positive crypto story I have seen in many months.



You can’t win with HN no coiners. The ETF doesn’t prevent all the decentralized benefits. It just adds regulatory legitimacy from the world’s most important financial regulator. It also helps regular people put their retirement money in, which is great


> The ETF doesn’t prevent all the decentralized benefits.

OP's point wasn't about preventing decentralized benefits, I believe they were saying the ETFs don't help them in any way.




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