Should You Invest in an Ethereum ETF?
Money For the Rest of Us
J. David Stein
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What is the investment case for Ethereum, and what are the risks? A straightforward review of what ether and Ethereum are, how they work, and what it will take for the Ethereum blockchain to be successful.
Topics covered include:
- Who launched Ethereum ETFs and what are the fees
- How Ethereum differs from Bitcoin
- Examples of applications built on the Ethereum blockchain including NFTs, stablecoins, DAOs, and tokenized real-world assets
- How Ethereum has evolved to lower fees, reduce supply, cut its energy use, and increase capacity
- What is Ethereum staking and how much can investors earn doing so
- What will cause ether to go up in price
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Show Notes
Spot Ethereum ETFs begin trading today: Here's what you need to know by Jason Shubnell—The Block
The spot Ethereum ETFs' first week by the numbers by James Hunt—The Block
Read Write Own by Chris Dixon—readwriteown.com
Ethereum is the Only Institution-Friendly Smart Contract Chain by Qiao Wang—Medium
EthereumETH Staking—Coinbase
5 Ways to Stake Your Crypto Assets—Staking Rewards
Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade: Unleashing Scalability and Efficiency—bitpay
Solana vs. Ethereum: Which Is Better in 2024? —KuCoin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to money for the rest of us. This is a personal finance show on money, how it works, how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host David Stein. Today it's episode 488. It's titled, Should you |
| 0:14.8 | invest in an Ethereum E.F? Last week nine news spot |
| 0:20.0 | Ethereum Ethel |
| 0:27.0 | TFs launched in the US after approval by the Security and Exchange Commission. These Ethel Ethel Ethel is the native coin that resides on the Ethereum blockchain. |
| 0:37.0 | Leading providers of these ETS |
| 0:40.0 | include iShares by Blackrock, Fidelity, Van Eck, Franklin. |
| 0:44.8 | Collectively, they brought in over a billion dollars in assets |
| 0:50.5 | in the first four trading days. but if we include gray scales, |
| 0:55.4 | Ethereum Trust, which existed previously but converted into an EDF |
| 1:00.6 | had a very high expense ratio of 2.5%. There was about a billion and a half |
| 1:05.1 | dollars of outflow from that E.T. So collectively with that trust, which is now an E.T.F. |
| 1:11.8 | The other 8 E.T., it was a net outflow of $340 billion. |
| 1:17.0 | The other ETS, the expense ratios range from 15 basis points to 25 basis points or 0.25%. |
| 1:27.8 | In this episode we're going to look out |
| 1:29.1 | should we speculate by buying an E E-TF. |
| 1:34.0 | Ethereum, |
| 1:35.0 | launch July 2015. |
| 1:37.0 | It was based on a white paper and concept developed |
| 1:41.0 | by the Tallic Buderin in 2013. I first discussed |
| 1:46.1 | Ethereum on money for the rest of us in Plus episode 160 that was released June 2017. I didn't know much about |
| 1:55.4 | ethereal. What brought it to my attention is it had gone from $10 per |
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