Tuesday, December 26, 2023

"BlackRock ‘Will Completely Destroy Bitcoin’—Shock Price Warning As Leak Reveals Huge Spot ETF Date Update"

From Forbes, December 24:

Bitcoin has rocketed higher this year, with the bitcoin price surging this month to highs not seen since early 2022—with a China earthquake suddenly appearing on the horizon.

The bitcoin price touched $45,000 per bitcoin before dropping back slightly, climbing steadily since October as the market braces for a "Biden bailout" in 2024.

Now, after Wall Street giant BlackRock primed the market for a major upheaval, one legendary trader has predicted the world's largest asset manager's looming bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) could be about to "completely destroy bitcoin."....

....MUCH MORE

I'm starting to think I've been doing the headline thing all wrong.

I mean I did the "Revealed" schtick for a while:

Which seemed to work before it got stale. And we had some minor success with clickbait.

"I've mentioned I only have two clickbait moves. There's the 'Listen to this battle cry from a supermodel' (and variants) move":
Before Buying into the Idea that Fractional Reserve Banking has Some Sort of Fraudulent Roots, Listen To This Battlecry From A Supermodel

And the "one weird trick" move:
Warren Buffet Uses This One Weird Trick to Be Persuasive

But never anything like that BlackRock headline at Forbes.