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I'm Joe Wiesenthal.

And I'm Tracy Alawet. So Tracy, you know, there's still no

Bitcoin E. T. F. As you know, I mean, for years, people have been trying to float one still that one but there are various

some publicly listed instruments that have exposure to Bitcoin that in the meantime people are buying and selling to yeah basically find a way

to get exposure to the asset class or whatever you want to call it through a listed

equity.

Yeah that's right and through a list of equity.

Yeah, that's right. And I know we've been talking about the possibility of a Bitcoin EDF

for many, many years now.

It's kind of surprising that that hasn't happened just yet, but you're right.

There are a number of public companies that are now a play on Bitcoin and they kind of range from the more, I guess you could say, outrageous or unusual to the more traditional.

So at one end of the spectrum, you have a gray scale Bitcoin trust, which is sort of trying to replicate the E. T. F. structure

without explicitly being an E. T. F. And then at the other end you have

remember all those companies like Long Island Ice Tea that changed their name to include

blockchain and just sort of jumped on the bandwagon. And those have been going up this year

along with the Bitcoin price as well and then of course you have

everything in between. Right is exactly right so some companies are very

tangentially related to crypto or they like oh we're suddenly a blockchain company even though we used to sell

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