{"id":170519,"date":"2026-05-26T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=170519"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:30:45","slug":"meltem-demirors-says-banks-won-as-bitcoin-etfs-pull-crypto-into-wall-streets-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=170519","title":{"rendered":"Meltem Demirors Says Banks Won as Bitcoin ETFs Pull Crypto Into Wall Street\u2019s Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency is undergoing an identity crisis as the gap widens between its decentralized origins and today\u2019s institution\u2011driven adoption, argues Meltem Demirors. The Institutional Paradox Meltem Demirors, founder and general partner of early-stage fund Crucible, argues that institutional access hasn\u2019t made bitcoin more useful. Instead, it has triggered an identity crisis, absorbing crypto into the very [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency is undergoing an identity crisis as the gap widens between its decentralized origins and today\u2019s institution\u2011driven adoption, argues Meltem Demirors. The Institutional Paradox Meltem Demirors, founder and general partner of early-stage fund Crucible, argues that institutional access hasn\u2019t made bitcoin more useful. Instead, it has triggered an identity crisis, absorbing crypto into the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":170520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}