halving is now the doubling

doing a spaces with casey Casey next tuesday to recap the craziness of launching runes!! listen in

Happy Halving!!! Just did a celebratory soju shot with Sachin Meier Hong Kim Schmidty

Join us next week to talk all things Runes with Casey following today’s launch of the protocol. Send your questions our way and we’ll cover them in the space.

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going to be at the mit bitcoin expo this weekend. dm if you're also coming and we should meet up!

Of the 11 issuers of spot #Bitcoin ETFs, only Bitwise and VanEck have pledged to donate funds to #Bitcoin Core devs.

Which of the remaining issuers will follow Bitwise and VanEck's lead?

My latest for Bitcoin Magazine.

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we put care into designing bitwise’s bitcoin etf donation mechanism

features:
- *no strings attached* donations
- to established non profit orgs rather than individuals to be further arm’s length from devs
- three orgs (opensats, brink, hrf) rather than one to reduce bias and

Saturday reading: we've opened access to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan's weekly memo to investment professionals.

Next one coming Monday.

You can see all CIO memos here: experts.bitwiseinvestments.com/cio-memos

🥁 drumroll please 🥁

Daffy is the first major donor-advised fund to partner w/ Bitwise to integrate the new Bitwise Bitcoin ETF ($BITB) to add even more options for members looking to invest their donor-advised fund (DAF) in #crypto 🎉

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Bitwise’s product has been seriously impressive and has been my biggest surprise in terms of the 9 (now 10) ETFs.

Serious props to the team, they were in the mud for years to get this consistently.

scott gets it

Another thing I'll say, from a procedural standpoint. It's incredibly helpful that we have an issuer providing a FULL replication using the SEC methodology. Including 1h, 5m and 1m intervals with the most up to date sample period (even if it's showing correlation below approved

Fantastic work from Bitwise here, showing an extraordinarily tight correlation between ETH spot and futures, using the SEC’s methodology.

This makes it hard to imagine the SEC prevailing in court if it denies a spot ETH ETF based on correlation.

Feeling less bearish today….

Most accurate illustration of current ETH spot/CME correlation I've seen thus far from an issuer. Matches up closely with what we calculated (though different sample periods). Bitwise on the left. This is strong.

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Bitwise is publishing a new correlation analysis today as part of its new spot Ethereum ETF filing.

This is the first ETH correlation analysis to replicate the specific methodology used by the SEC in their evaluation of bitcoin, and the results are encouraging.

The correlation

Here's a look at Top 30 ranked by assets in first 50 days on market. Went global for this so this is out of 11,338 funds. Four BTC ETFs made the list. $IBIT and $FBTC in league of their own. $BITB > $GLD!

BITB inflows for the past 4 days

today +$18m
yesterday +$2.5m
monday +$17m
friday +$20m

BITB investors are just doing their thing unbothered by the volatility. you love to see it.

[BITB disclosures & prospectus: bitbetf.com/welcome]