→ 2017. Larry Fink (CEO BlackRock): "Bitcoin is a money laundering index."
→ 2023. Tim Blakely (CEO Vanguard): "The company has no intention of launching any funds related to Bitcoin… [Bitcoin] has no fundamental economic value."
→ January 2024. Vanguard: "Bitcoin ETFs will not be available for purchase on the Vanguard platform. We also do not plan to offer Bitcoin ETFs or other cryptocurrency products."
→ March 2024. Tim Blakely (CEO Vanguard): "Something like Bitcoin is too volatile and is not a store of value… When stocks were destroyed in the last crisis, Bitcoin went down with them. It is a speculative asset. It is very difficult to understand how it can enter a long-term portfolio."
→ March 2024. Larry Fink: "Nothing gains assets as quickly as IBIT in the history of ETFs… And I never would have predicted this before we filed the application that we would see such a level of demand from retail clients."
→ July 2024. Vanguard: "We do not believe that [Bitcoin ETF] should be part of a long-term portfolio for those preparing for retirement. It is a speculative asset."
→ October 2025 - IBIT exceeds $100 billion in assets under management in less than 21 months. - It becomes the fastest-growing ETF in history — reaching $100 billion five times faster than any other fund. - IBIT surpasses each individual BlackRock ETF (including decade-long giants) to become the most profitable ETF in BlackRock's product lineup, which consists of more than 1,400 products, by annual revenue from fees.
→ December 1, 2025 Starting from December 2, 2025, all more than 50 million Vanguard clients can trade cryptocurrency ETFs on third-party platforms on the platform.
It seems like I was too happy too early and lost over two hundred thousand dollars on this contract, really won't touch this thing again #giggle #币安合约锦标赛
Why Global Markets and Bitcoin Are Falling - Explanation from Bloomberg👈
Global markets fell, and so did crypto. Bloomberg highlights several key factors that are currently pressuring risk assets:
🟥 Japan Unexpectedly Shook Global Markets
- The Bank of Japan gave a signal of possible rate hikes for the first time in many years on December 19th.
- The yen sharply strengthened, leading to the closure of carry-trade and the outflow of Japanese capital from foreign assets — this reduces liquidity and pressures stocks and crypto.
- Japanese bond yields rose to levels seen in 2008, making local assets more attractive and intensifying the inflow of capital back into Japan.
🟥 Investors Await Important US Data Reports on spending, the labor market, and ISM are released this week. Before the publication of the data, large funds are not rushing to increase risk.
🟥 Uncertainty Around the Fed The market is waiting for the meeting on December 10th and the possible replacement of Powell. Even with expectations of rate cuts, investors prefer to wait for decisions.
🟥 Cooling of the AI Rally The technology sector is correcting: overvaluation, high costs, MSCI Tech is down for the first time in seven months.
🟥 Weakness in China The manufacturing sector is shrinking again — this pressures the entire Asian market and adds caution to global investors.
🟥 Crypto Simply Follows the Macro BTC fell below $86,000, ETH below $3,000. There is no separate "crypto problem" — this is a standard risk-off in the context of a macro shock..
Now it is clear how the alt season occurs, the most important thing is to enter at the right prices to get something out of it. I listened to my friends about the alt season and they shouted at me to buy while the prices are sweet, I made my purchases, thank God I don't have the mania to buy with all my money and I don't throw everything I have into trying something new. I invested 1200 ₴, and I will show you an example with ARB, I bought ARB at an average price of 1.55₴, today it is 0.19$ , from the total portfolio I have 180₴ left, which means in order for me to get my money back ARB has to rise by 730%, so if I buy at the price of 0.19 ₴ and ARB returns to its values then I can make a profit and quite a decent one, but as I said before there is no alt season, everything revolves around BTC, alt is not something that can earn money.
🔌 Vitalik Buterin finally explained the legendary photo.$ETH It turned out that he had a regular cable in his pocket — not what everyone was joking about. Moreover, he even left a link to the same model of the gadget 😄
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Volodymyr Zelensky announced that a complete reboot of the Office of the President is coming and thanked Andriy Ermak for his work:
"I am grateful to Andriy for ensuring that the Ukrainian position in the negotiation track has always been represented exactly as it should be. It has always been a patriotic position".
Today, a search was conducted at the head of the OP's office
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