Picture this: Right now, a broker at a fancy Manhattan firm violently clicks his mouse, liquidating positions and helping drag $171 million out of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs in a single afternoon. Meanwhile, a guy in Ohio opens an app like SoFi and quietly buys $50 of physical Bitcoin while waiting for his dog to go to the bathroom before bed. These two investors are trading the exact same asset, but they are playing two completely different games. For years, buying Bitcoin meant leaving the familiar, regulated world of brokerage accounts and stepping into the digital Wild West of crypto exchanges, private keys and ... (full story)