Can ETFs Immediately End the Bear Market? Early Bitcoin Insiders: Institutional Funds Won't Come So Quickly

As Morgan Stanley has recently begun positioning itself for a spot Bitcoin ETF, some market observers believe this could become an important catalyst for ending the current crypto bear market. The reason is simple—behind it is a wealth advisory network managing roughly $8 trillion in assets, with extremely strong distribution capabilities.
However, Blockstream CEO and an early Bitcoin contributor, Adam Back, has poured a bucket of “cold water” on the market. He believes that while ETFs are indeed one of the most important positive signals in the current market, the speed at which institutional funds enter the market is often much slower than everyone imagines.
He gave an example: even if asset-management giants like BlackRock suggest allocating 2%–4% of their traditional investment portfolios to Bitcoin, fund managers still won’t carry it out right away. The actual position-building process may take as long as a year, or even 18 months, to be completed gradually.
Adam Back also noted that Bitcoin’s price will still be affected by the four-year halving cycle. Even if some think this cycle is being broken, the expectations and behavior of market participants themselves often make the cycle show up again.
In addition, regarding discussions about how quantum computing in the future might threaten Bitcoin’s cryptographic technology, he believes institutions will consider these “tail risks” more systematically in risk management, while ordinary investors usually treat it as a distant issue.
In capital markets, the real big trends never happen overnight; instead, capital flows in slowly and consensus gradually forms.
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