Bitcoin BTC Favored Over Ether ETH by CME Traders in 2023 So Far , Arcane Research Report Shows

Joe DiPasquale, CEO of crypto fund manager BitBull Capital, told CryptoX that institutional investors’ preference for BTC represented “the safest choice in a bear market.” He noted that Ethereum’s upcoming protocol updates might be raising concerns about an increased “risk of things going wrong,” and added that the Shanghai hard fork, which will allow validators who help operate the network to withdraw 16 million staked ETH, “is expected to add selling pressure.”