Crypto Got Every Legal Win It Wanted From Washington — And Still Lost the Market. Here's Why That Should Worry You

WHY IT MATTERS

Think of it like this: for years, crypto fans said, 'If only the government would let big banks and regular investors buy Bitcoin easily, the price would skyrocket.' Well, the government did exactly that — approving products called ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds), which let anyone with a stock brokerage account buy Bitcoin as easily as buying shares of Apple. But here's the catch: making it easy to buy also made it easy to sell. Big Wall Street firms don't hold through tough times the way passionate crypto believers do — they sell fast when things look risky. So the very thing crypto asked for may have actually made the market more volatile, not less. It's a reminder that 'mainstream adoption' doesn't automatically mean prices go up.