And it may, just not in ways anyone bullish on crypto should be comfortable with.

Finally the SEC approved a Bitcoin ETF, the ProShares Bitcoin Futures ETF (BITO) began trading this week to great fanfare in the cryptocurrency community. There was much rejoicing as Bitcoin hit a new all-time high which it has since given back.

On the heels of that announcement Valkyrie changed the proposed ticker symbol for its Bitcoin Strategies ETF, another futures-based product, to BTFD. Gotta love the cheek, there.

And while that's all well and good, I have to tell you that I have sincere reservations about popping the virtual champagne here.

Because I've seen this story before… in gold and silver.

I remember those heady days when all the gold bugs thought an ETF would be just the thing to solve the 'liquidity' problem gold had. At the time they didn't want to hear that this lack of liquidity was one of those good problems gold and silver had.

Once people dug into the prospectus of the proposed SPDR Gold ETF, which has since then changed its name to SPDR Gold Shares ETF, they found that GLD didn't have to hold physical gold of any particular quality. They could hold the dreaded 'paper gold.'

That was the key to these funds being just another layer of the Matrix.

They opened up those markets to another sink to drain demand into a black hole of infinite 'liquidity' which in the end did nothing to help the price of gold. In fact, just the opposite occurred. It took pressure off the physical spot market and the forex trading of gold and dumped billions of unsuspecting retail investors into the Midgewater Marshes of Wall St.'s hyper-financialization engine.