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If you buy Bitcoin ETF you are dead to me 
 Gm 🫡 
 GM, buy ETF??  With what? I heard they only take cash. 
 The whole in kind vs cash is a new concept to me since I don't follow ETFs in general. So does this mean that you can't go to them and exchange bitcoin for shares of the ETF? If someone were to want to do that? 
 Yap, gotta sell real corn for fake cash to buy fake corn 
 This probably is because of KYC. The government probably doesn't want no-KYC coins in the ETF for tracking purposes. I could be wrong. 
 I think that's a great read on the sitch 
 In Canada, you can hold it in a registered account. Rsp, tfsa, and resp. If held in a tfsa there aren’t any taxable capital gains.

It has some advantages for people. 
 Ps - Gm! 
 Sir this is how you become dead to him. 
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If this is the case, so be it. 
 Giving Bitcoin to big institutions to hold in an account you can't use without government permission...

Kill me pls 🙏 
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It’s good for high net individuals who trade.

Have your forever money in cold storage and your play money in a tfsa. Win, win. 
 Sadly I lost all my money in a tragic ledger hack so won't be able to pay those gains after all dag nabbit 
 You make your choices. 

A nuanced topic argued from the extremes. 

Tiresome and boring. 
 BTCC.U has been around for years in Canada  
 Good morning stay sovereign 
 GM!

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 Agreed 
 MSTR is my Bitcoin ETF 
 If you don't pour your 401k into it there's no other way to have a Bitcoin 401k... or am I missing anything? 
 It's still not a bitcoin 401k all you've done is given blackrock real Bitcoin in exchange for some fake paper in a fake account ngmi and the government pinky swears you can have it in 30 years 
 Don't ever give anything except fiat for those ETFs. 
 I’m fine with that. 😉 
 I know a lot of dead people walking! 
 There is (at least) one valid use case - ROTH IRA where any gains would be tax free... 
 Instructions unclear, my 401K has been almost all GBTC for many years. 
 Same 
 Change from 401k to BTC in 2016 📈 fuck paper 📝 #Bitcoin 
 *mute user* 
 you buy the satanic blackrock etf = fake btc = paper btc

el salvador will issue a real etf = btc in and out
for those who do not want to self custody for any reason