Mar 8, 2024

Thomas Hogan, an economist with the American Institute for Economic Research, weighs in on the success of the spot bitcoin ETFs in the past months and the future of these products.

Video transcript

This spot, Bitcoin ETF update is presented by Grayscale, the world's largest crypto asset manager. I actually, I still think there's a long way left to go on this. You know, I'm, I'm hearing from people that are uh registered investment advisors that have trad five clients that haven't even started talking to them about it yet. You know, a lot of their corporate offices um aren't yet allowing them to even be marketing or selling this product to their investors. And so, you know, that's something that some of some of the major advisors, those firms will wait sometimes six months or a year before they start recommending a new new ETF just to see how things play out. But in this case, it's been so successful that I think a lot of them are trying to, trying to fast track that. And I, I know also that a lot of the advisors themselves, they're getting questions from clients about when is this going to be available? And so, you know, if that's true, then we could see even a lot more action and a lot more inflows into these ETF S

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