You seem to have forgotten that bitcoin never needed ETF to rise and it is not about to start now. The price has gone up 4 billion percent ever since the inception (from $0.001 to current $42k) and all that without ETF or any centralized crap like that.

Even if SEC were to reject ETF, it wouldn't have been the first time and nobody would care. The only thing that would have done was to scare some newbies to panic sell.