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Bitcoin ETF Is Approved! | Group Chat News Ep.833

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News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Today on Group Chat News, we have a special interview with Ian Rogers of Ledger talking all things digital assets and the exciting news of the Bitcoin ETF being approved as soon as we started recording this episode. Then we jumped into some news, including Ecuador's citizens taking up arms against drug cartels, U S oil to reach record output in 2024, Aaron Rodgers is done being a guest on the Pat McAffe show for the rest of the NFL season, and Nick Saban announces his retirement plus more.

Timeline of What Was Discussed:

  • Bitcoin ETF has been APPROVED! Breaking down this momentous feat. (0:00)

  • The impact on the broader web3 market. (19:40)

  • Exciting things at Ledger happening. (38:07)

  • The guy's hot take on Aaron Rodgers being dropped from the Pat McAfee Show. (48:34)

  • Complete chaos in Ecuador. (1:00:09)

  • US oil output at record highs. (1:07:25)

  • Nick Saban retiring. (1:09:13)

  • Group Chat ‘Kathy’ Shout Outs. (1:10:50)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, this is a historic day, and so we timed this like perfectly with Ian.

0:09.1

So Ian Rogers, who's been on this podcast many times before is with Ledger and when we were planning

0:16.6

on him coming on the pod just because we wanted to check in on the crypto market and what Ledger's been up to and it just so happened as we are

0:27.8

starting to record the Bitcoin ETFs get approved by the SEC.

0:34.3

We timed it to the minute.

0:36.4

Literally you guys sat down and you were like, well, they just approved it 10 seconds ago.

0:40.9

And as soon as they got approved, you know, Ian's in Paris and he opened up for me.

0:47.0

Habicky.

0:48.0

Yeah, I was like, well, we got a toast to this.

0:51.0

This thing came back to me from Bright Moments Tokyo.

0:54.0

Actually, it came with an NFT mint, so it feels appropriate.

0:58.0

Oh wow.

0:59.0

Cheers.

1:00.0

Let's drink to the future of digital assets.

1:03.2

And so 11 ETS have been officially approved.

1:08.8

Franklin Val Kyrie, don't know what that is,

1:13.4

Valkary, Black Rock Greyscale, Arcasmian, Bitwise Fidelity,

1:19.4

it's all the big boys.

1:21.3

So, I mean, it's, what is this? Start to interrupt, but like for the layman, what does this mean?

1:28.0

It means that anyone with a brokerage account, if you're at Schwab, Fidelity, Robin Hood, anyone can buy this now.

1:38.4

You don't need to be on coin base.

1:40.5

You don't need to be on any of these exchanges like Binance.

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