Why the Ethereum ETF is Bullish $ETH | Matt Hougan of Bitwise
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Matt Hougan is the CIO at Bitwise, and has been one of the best people to talk to when it comes to understanding the ETF process, and the impact of ETFs on the crypto markets.
Today we dive into the specifics on what exactly the ETF approval means for ETH.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
05:46 What Exactly Happened?
08:45 Was This Really Political?
12:11 Who's Responsible For This
16:46 Next Steps For ETF
20:36 Matt's ETF Story
22:44 ETF Price Impact
27:38 ETF Inflow Predictions
34:50 Explaining The ETH Narrative
38:23 Matt's 2 Minute Pitch
45:12 How Bitwise's Job Changes
49:01 ETH Charts
54:31 Legislation
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| 0:00.0 | Financial professionals love Ethereum and it's a very different story from Bitcoin. |
| 0:03.7 | They see Bitcoin as digital gold, store of wealth, a way to hedge against inflation. |
| 0:08.4 | They see Ethereum as a cash flow driven technology play that is providing an internet 2.0 and a new way |
| 0:16.1 | for finance to exist in the world and they love all the real world applications. |
| 0:22.0 | Bicle Station we are We are still basking in the glow of the Ethereum EDF approval. |
| 0:29.0 | I would say that's pretty accurate. |
| 0:30.5 | So we wanted to get another take here and particularly a take that |
| 0:33.3 | focuses on how bullish this thing is for a theorem for the price of a theorem how do you |
| 0:38.1 | explain this to tradfies our guest today is Matt Hogan who is an absolute expert in this. |
| 0:44.0 | Not only do we think this is bullish for Eath, the asset, |
| 0:46.3 | ethereal, the economy, but I think there's a pretty good argument to make that this is |
| 0:49.6 | bullish for the entire industry. |
| 0:53.0 | And I think really just Ethereum and Ethiasa |
| 0:55.5 | is being the vanguard for the industry, |
| 0:57.5 | fighting a lot of the fights head on, |
| 0:59.4 | that ultimately benefits the industry as a whole. |
| 1:01.6 | And I check these takes with Matt Hogan who will give |
| 1:04.9 | you his answer to these kind of questions and perspectives as soon as we get to him |
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| 1:11.9 | possible especially Krakhan our preferred exchange to buy vanilla bankless Eath, |
| 1:16.5 | not the E.T.F. stuff, even though we enjoy the ETS as well. |
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