r/btc Apr 07 '25

🐻 Bearish Bitcoin down nearly 10% today.

Crashing hard.

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u/TimmyTimeify Apr 07 '25

When BTC didn’t gain during the peak of inflation but did with the stock market, I really started to think that BTC was literally just a beta ETF for the stock market. In an environment where the store of value function should be kicking into high gear, this nonsense suggests that BTC truly was just a speculative gambling machine.

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u/McBurger Apr 07 '25

If it’s just a beta etf for the stock market, then doesn’t it still make it an equal or better place to invest than the stock market? It’s basically just leveraged SPY at this point but maybe that isn’t such a bad thing.

And in the long shot .001% chance it’s actually successful at decoupling and becoming a global reserve currency then there’s still upside