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> ETH needs its own Michael Saylor With all due respect to @sassal.eth and others who hold this view: I don’t think it does. The only reason BTC maxis love Saylor is because he holds the promise of pumping their bags. It’s a Faustian growth hack, though. If BTC moons, Saylor becomes its natural figurehead and spokesperson. If BTC dumps hard, $MSTR becomes a single point of cascading failure. Either outcome is terrible. It would be much more antifragile for BTC to achieve the same scarcity by being near-evenly spread across a large population. As for ETH, there’s only enough supply for every human on this planet to own 0.015 of it (~$50). Imagine a world with far fewer whales and much more krill — true abundance. To repeat: we don’t need a Saylor. Instead, we need to organically put ETH into as many hands as possible, which itself requires that we keep increasing its utility https://x.com/sassal0x/status/1870620451917209603
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Blackrock purchases ETH for the purpose of the iShares Ethereum Trust ETF. The beneficial owners are the ETF buyers. Blackrock can’t arbitrarily sell that ETH, they are merely its custodian in an analog way that Coinbase is a custodian among CEXes Very different from $MSTR purchasing BTC for its own treasury IMO
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Analogous to the Saylor scenario, what’s the tail risk here? Blackrock custodies 1M ETH but it’s tied in IOUs held by their customers. Maybe a staking centralization risk if they decide to stake for themselves (or later, with staking ETFs) and go all in with one provider? They hold the equivalent of ~3% of the staked volume, still far less than some LST operators. Or maybe that they don’t need to redeem in kind, so when ETF IOUs are traded back, Blackrock pays cash out of pocket but retains the ETH for themselves? They could also just buy for their own treasury at this rate. Or maybe a custodial failure? For sure if Blackrock’s 1M ETH wallets got hacked, that would wreak havoc. Genuine question btw. I’m not welcoming a large corporate buyer, but I’m also trying to point to specific risks that might exist with an ETF manager
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