{"id":55397,"date":"2025-10-29T01:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=55397"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:16:45","slug":"exclusive-bitcoin-etfs-treasury-firms-double-edged-sword-says-trezor-ceo-they-bring-money-but-not-owning-a-piece-of-btc-is-a-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=55397","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Bitcoin ETFs, Treasury Firms &#8216;Double-Edged Sword,&#8217; Says Trezor CEO \u2014 They Bring Money, But Not Owning &#8216;A Piece&#8217; Of BTC Is A &#8216;Pity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Matej Zak<\/strong>, CEO of hardware wallet company <strong>Trezor<\/strong>, called the rise of <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) exchange-traded funds and corporate treasuries a &#8220;double-edged sword&#8221; as they bring in fresh money to the market but also weaken some of BTC&#8217;s core ideals.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s A Pity, Says Zak<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking with Benzinga at the launch event for the company&#8217;s latest product, Trezor Safe 7, in Prague, Zak admitted that these institutional-grade investments create &#8220;buzz&#8221; and add &#8220;extra marketing dollars&#8221; on Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that\u2019s probably positive in the sense that more people know about crypto,&#8221; Zak added.<\/p>\n<p>The flip side, he believes, is that people are not holding Bitcoin directly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because like, why BTC even started? Well, because people had financial products that were heavily leveraged, the financial markets collapsed and a lot of people lost all their money,&#8221; Zak said, possibly referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/07\/39635077\/fourth-of-july-is-all-about-freedom-and-so-is-bitcoin-for-many-americans-in-love-with-king\">message encoded in the genesis block<\/a> that many have linked to the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48483105\/exclusive-bitcoin-etfs-treasury-firms-double-edged-sword-says-trezor-ceo-they-bring-money-b?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Exclusive:\" bitcoin etfs treasury firms sword says trezor ceo they bring money but not owning piece of btc is a>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matej Zak, CEO of hardware wallet company Trezor, called the rise of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded funds and corporate treasuries a &#8220;double-edged sword&#8221; as they bring in fresh money to the market but also weaken some of BTC&#8217;s core ideals. It\u2019s A Pity, Says Zak Speaking with Benzinga at the launch event for the company&#8217;s [&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-55397","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\/55397","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=55397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}