Government recognition was supposed to help Bitcoin grow to a much popular digital currency as it brings it mainstream resulting in more demand for cryptocurrencies...but unfortunately things have gone the opposite direction which is unexplainable!! Is this reaction of price saying Bitcoin regulation isn't a supported development or maybe actual frameworks to allow these to operate are still a work in progress despite the green light, Otherwise I still feel we haven't seen the best of these guys (institutional investors)!
Btw, "Will government recognition kill cryptocurrency or boost" killing the markets I don't think so, crypto is still decentralized before anything..I think we all expect this to be a boost to cryptocurrency, what we have experienced is a slight disruption to the market as new market drivers are introduced which should show their influence sooner or later, for now we wait to see the power of institutional money in the crypto industry.
Yes, the government will try to acquiring Bitcoin as much as they can, currently centralized exchanges already acquiring huge amount of coins, remember government can easily work together with centralized exchanges, if the CEX reject that, the government can easily shut down the CEX.
When almost all Bitcoins are owned by government and CEX, they will issues fake Bitcoin e.g. Bitcoin IOU and keep the real coins in their own wallet.
sounding like an El Salvador move of acquiring Bitcoin..
Btw, this whole acquiring of bitcoin with the approved Spot ETFs, isn't this private hands doing this unlike the government themselves???
Afaik there role here is being regulator only not acting as BUyer and Seller at the same time!