IMO it is not relevant at all whether the SEC will approve an ETF. And i honestly also don't believe this will happen (yet).
I am not understanding the call for an ETF. Bitcoin was created to be a free decentralized currency.
Why people want the approval for an ETF from the government is beyond my imagination. The only reason i can think of is the hope for 'new money coming in'.
The times to get rich quick with simply holding bitcoins are over. I am confident that the BTC/$ price will rise in the future. But hoping for another bull run and/or to get rich with a few bucks invested is just delusional.
However, at some point the SEC will approve an ETF. They can't ignore the calls for an ETF forever.
But it might just not happen this year. IMO that's perfectly fine. I wouldn't expect a big jump in price after an approval/denial too.
SEC actually can ignore these ETFs but they won't. The people who want these ETFs to get approved aren't actual bitcoiners. And these people know the people representing the SEC,so there are possibilities where people might actually collide here, by finding a loophole and thus making the entire collusion in good/bad faith, but at the end of the day, they get what they want.
Why people want the ETF to get approved is fucking simple:
Most of the stock market investors are old egoistic pile of shit, they don't have enough knowledge/ are very ignorant to invest in bitcoin, but an ETF changes everything in their perspective, and whoever gets the ETF approved gets fucking rich.
I think the SEC is just playing games with Bitcoiners at the moment. Is there really enough investor demand for a Bitcoin ETF?
Yep. There is demand. People in the US have gone crazy after bitcoin and most of them aren't good in using crypto. ETF is the way for them.