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Bitcoin Bull Michael Saylor Makes Bold Statements on Ethereum (ETH), XRP, and Altcoins

According to well-known Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor, Ethereum is a security. Recently, the long-running argument over whether Ethereum is a security or a commodity was taken to court.

Ethereum development company Consensys recently declared in the case it filed against the SEC that ETH is not a security, despite the SEC’s statements to the contrary.

Even though ETH has received a lot of attention at this point, the most recent assessment came from Michael Saylor, the inventor of MicroStrategy, who is well-known for his advocacy of Bitcoin.

Saylor asserted that ETH is a security in some unexpected remarks he made on the cryptocurrency.

Saylor stated that the biggest altcoin is a security rather than a commodity when he spoke yesterday at the MicroStrategy World 2024 conference.

Michael Saylor continued, saying that Ethereum will be rejected by spot Ethereum ETFs and that Ethereum will be categorized as a security by the SEC this summer.

Saylor thinks that numerous cryptocurrencies, like BNB, Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), and XRP, will be categorized as securities by the SEC in addition to ETH.

Ethereum is not a commodity; it is a security. You will notice that numerous cryptocurrencies, like BNB, Solana, Ripple, and Cardano, are also unregistered securities after ETH.

No spot Ethereum ETFs will be approved by the SEC. Wall Street will never accept Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies because they are securities. “Mainstream institutional buyers will not accept any of them as cryptocurrencies.”

Following his remarks, the well-known figure discussed Bitcoin and maintained that it is the only cryptocurrency that has gained institutional acceptability. Saylor asserted that Bitcoin is the “only universal” cryptocurrency that is appropriate for investments at the institutional level and that no other cryptocurrency will exist.

May 2024, Cryptoniteuae 

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Vaibhavv Ali
Vaibhavv Ali

Vaibhavv Ali is the founder and editor of Cryptonite (cryptonite.ae), an independent digital-asset news and analysis publication with a UAE focus. He covers virtual-asset regulation — VARA, ADGM and the UAE Central Bank — alongside real-world-asset tokenization, stablecoins and agentic AI in finance. Every Cryptonite article is human-edited and its sources are linked. He is also a celebrated speaker and host.

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