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Bitcoin Community is Divided on Institutional Interest

Bitcoin By Gavin23/08/2025
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Bitcoin Price Coiling Up — Is a Surge Past $110K
Bitcoin Price Coiling Up — Is a Surge Past $110K
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Preston Pysh is the co-founder and Bitcoin venture fund Ego Death Capital. He says that institutional adoption of Bitcoin will take time.

“Part of that culture that brought it to where it is, is looking at where this is all going and saying no, no, no, no, this is all moving in a bad direction,” Pysh told Natalie Brunell, Coin Stories Podcast on Friday.

Pysh has said that the institutions involved in “institutional-like things,” Bitcoins (also known as Bitcoin) are a type of cryptocurrency.BTCSome Bitcoiners are concerned by the impact of derivatives on the future and whether Bitcoin will still be the asset that was once a safe haven.

Preston Pysh, left, and Natalie Brunell, right (both pictured), spoke with Preston Pysh on the Coin Stories radio podcast Friday. Source: Natalie Brunell

“Am I being scammed, like all the other scams that preceded this wave?” Pysh claims that some members of the Bitcoin Community are now asking this question as interest from institutions grows.

Bitcoiners, who have pushed the currency past $1 trillion, are worried about its future direction

Bitcoiners are still debating whether institutional investment is causing Bitcoin to drift away from its intended purpose.

“For people who have made Bitcoin what it is, getting it here, over a trillion dollars, involved individuals, for the most part, self-custodying Bitcoin, holding onto the keys for dear life through 70% and 80% downturns and still not selling them,” Pysh, who added:

“The term we like to throw around is we’re Bitcoin psychopaths.”

The news comes after nearly a week of a social media heated debate in which crypto analyst Scott Melker was involved. also known as The Wolf of All StreetsBitcoin “is amazing” It has, however, been largely taken over by those against whom it had originally been created.

Ryan McMillin is the chief investment officer of Merkle Tree Capital, recently told Cointelegraph It is an indication of the decline in Bitcoin if old Bitcoins are sold to institutions. “integration with the financial system.” 

Bitcoin is a new currency for institutions “very differently” Pysh

Pysh said that Bitcoin’s ethos was being challenged and expected it to be scrutinized as interest from institutions grows.

“I think that it’s going to move in a direction where a lot of people use Bitcoin the way they wanna use Bitcoin, especially institutions, who are going to use it very differently to how individuals use it,” Pysh was saying.

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“That’s a difficult pill for people to swallow,” He said.

“At large, part of the Bitcoin culture is to be pretty much skeptical of everything and to question everything,” He added.

In a report released by Coinbase on 18 March, EY-Parthenon surveyed 83% institutional investors and they said that the plan is to increase their investments. increase crypto allocations in 2025.

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