Arthur Hayes, co-founder of crypto exchange BitMEX, is sounding the alarm over what he sees as potentially dire outcomes from the pending regulatory approval of the Bitcoin Spot Exchange Traded Fund (ETF).
The concern lies with traditional financial asset managers, such as Black Rockpotentially undermining Bitcoin (btc) by dominating the Bitcoin ETF spot market.
In a Dec. 22 blog post, Hayes highlighted the risk that such companies own "all the Bitcoin in circulation." If that happens, he says, an overly successful ETF run by traditional asset managers could ultimately lead to the decline of the cryptocurrency.