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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO of CoinShares, joins us to talk about the financialization of Bitcoin following the ETF launches. We dive into how derivatives and call overwriting could be compressing volatility and changing price action. He also breaks down the cultural and regulatory differences stifling European adoption compared to the US, and why Bitcoin's ultimate success might be a "bittersweet" signal of global sovereign debt failure.
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**Notes:**
Notes:
* EU ETF market 10x smaller than US
* Bitcoin futures in backwardation
* Spot liquidity is currently thin
* Options market suppressing volatility
* US dominates global crypto trading
* Sovereign debt cycles are failing
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:51 Current BTC volatility
07:29 Options market wagging the dog
09:33 Financialization of Bitcoin
14:23 Who's using call options?
15:52 Market changes due to ETF?
18:03 JPM 1.5x levered ETF
18:53 European ETF market
25:31 European ETF flows
29:24 What is holding institutions back?
31:14 Are DATs dead?
