The interests are no longer 'interests' if they already got their feet wet. A lot of institutional investors have already graced the cryptocurrency market scene for a long time now, and several others who were reluctant at first are now eyeing it since there's not much money to be made in the stock and bond markets currently given the situation of the whole world. This just further ignited their curiosity to handle bitcoin and crypto since the scene is still ripe for the picking, and suits what they wanted from an asset class. It's just.. there isn't any movement that indicates they're already here, but for sure they are.

Agree, we have witnessed institutional money coming end in 2017. CME and CBOE at the end of that year and pushing the price to its all time high, remember that guys? So I guess the hype is still there because they know that crypto will be huge in the future that's why institutional money keeps flowing despite the bear market/pandemic/twitter hacks and everything negative about bitcoin and crypto in general.

Exactly, the whole CME and CBoE bitcoin future contracts offering in 2017 really open up the doors of institutional money to get inside the market. However, there are proponents who says that it started the downtrend because once they are inside the market goes on a all-time-high but it also started the bear market as the bubble has been burst.

And then we have whales that can influence or manipulate the market, so there are pros and cons of huge money getting in from institutional investors, IMHO.

Without going too far in the 2008 financial crisis, many investors saw some of the scenarios that are happening right now, not only on Wall Street but also in Stock Market investors, who recognize that Bitcoin can be seen in the short term as a refuge mechanism for value, and this is where institutional investment is entering the Bitcoin market, from 4 years ago when the period of Bitcoin accumulation was until 2017, when there was the great bullish, many speculators and investors in the market can intuit that this behavior can occur again.

And even though the Bitcoin market is not predictable, it is a good time to put some good money in there to inflate it anytime a bullish trend stage occurs.

The interest is growing, and it’s not stopping. A lot of investors want to buy Bitcoin, and those of them that don’t know about it are looking for people that will help them understand and start investing. I have really helped a lot of them where I live. Some meet me and tell me they would like to invest huge money, and ask me everything they need to know and I give them answers. And the interest seems to be growing as of recent, everyone is just talking about it, they want to invest in it. This is the level of recognition I have been waiting for.

Unlike most people do state in our speculation board, I guess we expect or not or we love or not, but we are going to touch stars very soon and this is what I understand whenever I am coming across any discussion about increased bitcoin related activities or anything similar to that. Institutional fund managers will get into board for sure as bitcoin will be providing massive returns for sure and that also will be in very short time period. I mean no surprises here but this is what I do dream about at more frequency.

You mean that Bitcoin would become less volatile this way? Maybe it's not a bad thing, as it might make retailers more confident and motivate them to accept Bitcoin as payment. And traders will still be able to play on the volatility, just not as much. Moreover, it seems that Bitcoin is already not as volatile as it used to be. The price rarely moves more that 10% in 24 hours and, lately, even in a week. And as for the institutional interest, I am not sure it affects the price that much. If we take futures, for instance, it's like a completely different market and largely ignores the real prices, right? So Bitcoin's dynamic remains unaffected, I think.

That will be the result for less volatility but might the traders wouldn't want it since the volatility is there happy time to earn more bitcoins, But its for the good then maybe we should accept this to be happen since if less volatility less risk and acceptance will slowly grow since the price is much understandable and not risky for the accepting institutions.


But I'm not surprise for being less volatile by this time since we cannot really rely on it right now since all facing a major crisis this days.

Institutional holding of Bitcoin has risen sharply in 2019. Many hedge funds bought a large amount of bitcoins. Many prominent services started accepting Bitcoin as money, payment gateways started accepting Bitcoin as mode of deposit and withdrawal, even PayPal is moving towards it. Many bank eased Bitcoin trading and even came up with special trading accounts.