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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Ben Slaven joins us

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Speaker 1: right now, Global head of e t F speaking of

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Speaker 1: UM and Assets Serving Servicing it B n Y Melon

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Speaker 1: speaking of out of n y c UM. They've got

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Speaker 1: two point three trillion dollars of assets under management. Ben,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. UM, you know, more

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Speaker 1: and more I conflate the world of e t f

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Speaker 1: s with the crypto world. I know that's not really fair,

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Speaker 1: but UM, we do have uh recently hyped new pro

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Speaker 1: shares Bitcoin e t F as well as Greatcoins, Great

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Speaker 1: Scales conversion of its Bitcoin trust into an e t F.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the two worlds colliding here? Well,

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Speaker 1: we've seen quite a bit of convergence. UM. As you noted,

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin ETFs made a dramatic entrance into the e t

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Speaker 1: e t F industry, democratizing yet another asset class, and

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Speaker 1: so it gives investors a new option for those seeking

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Speaker 1: exposure to cryptocurrencies, in this case bitcoin, and clearly there's

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Speaker 1: pent up demand um. And you can see this convergence

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Speaker 1: where the product that launched first set the all time

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Speaker 1: which was Gold Physical Goal g l D back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand four, which did it in three And clearly

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Speaker 1: investors are not only preferring this access to crypto, but

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Speaker 1: certainly doing so in the e t F structure. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, as witnessed by the trading volume and the

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Speaker 1: demand we've seen for the products. So ben give us

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Speaker 1: a sense of how the Gray Stale as it converts

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Speaker 1: from a trust to an e t F, how that

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Speaker 1: will differ from the pro shares Bitcoin e TV Well,

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Speaker 1: there are two very different things. So you know, Gray

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Speaker 1: and Gray Scales Bitcoin Trust holds the underlying bitcoin UM.

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Speaker 1: But in the case of the pro shares product and

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Speaker 1: the other future space products, we saw another one UM

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Speaker 1: very important differences that investors need to be aware of

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Speaker 1: in terms of how they work and the risks and

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Speaker 1: the returns they will receive. But most importantly, the futures

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Speaker 1: there are costs to roll that futures contract, especially when

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Speaker 1: like we have now, the futures curves slopes upward and

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Speaker 1: how those products track UM, you know, compared to a

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Speaker 1: physical product UM. That's correct, UM, the bitcoin products will

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Speaker 1: in both, and the convergence can be huge, like after

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Speaker 1: and certainly we've seen that in other markets, um, where

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Speaker 1: do you think the regulators will get to the point

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Speaker 1: I mean, certainly, the SEC allowed the pro shares product

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Speaker 1: We saw record setting and again we're seeing that here

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Speaker 1: And that is something we're seeing pick up UM in

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Speaker 1: something I expect to continue. But certainly the passive ETFs

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Ben Slaven,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting because I've been covering bitcoin

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Speaker 1: there's also the acknowledgment of Okay, if you have again clients,

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Speaker 1: it's not worthless. Takes two people to make a market, right, Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that you have missed the trade. I

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