{"id":29268,"date":"2025-05-29T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29268"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:17:05","slug":"educate-yourself-grayscale-etf-head-wants-skeptics-to-learn-about-disruptive-nature-of-bitcoin-and-other-cryptos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29268","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Educate Yourself&#8217;: Grayscale ETF Head Wants Skeptics To Learn About &#8216;Disruptive&#8217; Nature Of Bitcoin And Other Cryptos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Grayscale\u2019s <\/strong>Global Head of ETFs,<strong> Dave LaValle, <\/strong>encouraged cryptocurrency skeptics to educate themselves about the \u201cdisruptive\u201d potential of the asset class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: In an exclusive chat with Benzinga, LaValle likened the current state of cryptocurrency to the period when exchange-traded funds began gaining traction at the beginning of this millennium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t really until the mid-2000s is when people really adopted them and started to question some of the myth that they were financial weapons of mass destruction,\u201d he stated, adding that <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and other digital assets were now at a similar crossroads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having really high quality conversations in that regard,\u201d LaValle added. \u201cWe\u2019re not here to say that Bitcoin belongs in every single client\u2019s portfolio, but we\u2019re here to say you need to educate yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45652549\/vice-president-jd-vance-predicts-100m-bitcoin-holders-the-us-ought-to-be-leaning-into-bitc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vice President JD Vance Predicts 100M Bitcoin Holders: \u2018The US Ought &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45673634\/educate-yourself-grayscale-etf-head-wants-skeptics-to-learn-about-disruptive-nature-of-bit\" alt=\"'Educate\" yourself grayscale etf head wants skeptics to learn about nature of bitcoin and other cryptos>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grayscale\u2019s Global Head of ETFs, Dave LaValle, encouraged cryptocurrency skeptics to educate themselves about the \u201cdisruptive\u201d potential of the asset class. What Happened: In an exclusive chat with Benzinga, LaValle likened the current state of cryptocurrency to the period when exchange-traded funds began gaining traction at the beginning of this millennium. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t really until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}