To hear bulls tell it, institutions have been waiting for reputable institutional-grade custody before entering the market. I'm skeptical about that myself, but it looks like we'll find out soon.
What's there to be skeptical about?
Because we already know it's not true. Wall Street has been involved with Bitcoin for several years now. Fidelity themselves has been mining Bitcoin for nearly 4 years -- I guess
they couldn't wait for custody services. If institutions really want exposure to this market, they're not dumb enough to wait until years go by and someone like Fidelity offers custody services. They're already here.
It's extremely bullish, because there is a plenty of demand for legacy institutions to offer these services.
That's what I'm skeptical about. You make it sound like there's all this latent demand just waiting to enter the market. How do you know? Blackrock and Morgan Stanley have said exactly the opposite -- that their clients have shown little to no interest in Bitcoin investment. Increased market
access doesn't equate to increased market
demand.
Eventually, I think legacy services like this will be important, perhaps when the next bull market rears its head and demand starts picking up again. I just don't buy the story that all this latent Wall Street demand exists that's about to buy into the market because of Fidelity.