Is Bitcoin About to Enter the S&P 500? Strategy Now Qualifies For Inclusion, Analyst Says

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Anyone invested in the S&P 500 may soon own Bitcoin indirectly.Strategy maxi Jeff Walton said Tuesday on X that the company had cleared the final hurdle to qualify for the highly coveted index, which ...

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07-05
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Putting it as indirectly holding btc might be misleading just to entice people to buy not knowing that they wont have a say on the good or bad runs btc might have.

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