THELOGICALINDIAN - The borderline is cartoon abreast for the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC to accomplish a accommodation on the aboriginal Bitcoin ETF The Commission has declared that this borderline is March 11 which has acquired some abashing in the Bitcoin association back this date avalanche on a Saturday A article in the SECs rulebook pushes the borderline to March 13
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SEC Says March 11 is the Deadline
On January 4, the SEC issued a notice advertence that it has appointed “March 11, 2017 as the date by which the Commission should either accept or blame the proposed aphorism 
change (File No. SR-BatsBZX-2016-30), as adapted by Amendment No. 1”. This aphorism change apropos the advertisement and trading of Coin ETF on the Bats Global Market exchange.
March 11 is 240 canicule from July 14, 2024, the date which the proposed aphorism change was appear for apprehension and animadversion in the Federal Register. However, March 11 avalanche on a Saturday this year, a day in which U.S. government offices are closed.
SEC Clause Moves Deadline to March 13
Title 17 of the Code of Federal Regulations, alleged CFR (Commodity and Securities Exchanges), has a area that addresses ‘time computation’. 17 CFR allotment 201 of Rule 160 (§201.160) states that “In accretion any aeon of time assigned in or accustomed by these Rules of Practice or by adjustment of the Commission, the day of the act, event, or absence from which the appointed aeon of time begins to run shall not be included”. The Commission added wrote that:
In addition, 17 CFR 240.19b-4 – ‘Filings with account to proposed aphorism changes by self-regulatory organizations’ states that: “A ‘‘business day’’ is any day added than a Saturday, Sunday, Federal holiday, a day that the Appointment of Personnel Management has appear that Federal agencies in the Washington, DC breadth are bankrupt to the public, a day on which the Commission is accountable to a Federal government abeyance or a day on which the Commission’s Washington, DC appointment is contrarily not accessible for approved business”.
The abutting business day following March 11 per the SEC’s aphorism is Monday March 13.
Managing administrator and arch of analysis at Blockchain Capital, Spencer Bogart, above Needham analyst who appear many reports on Bitcoin and Bitcoin ETFs, accepted to Bitcoin.com that:
Other SEC Deadlines for Bitcoin ETF Decisions
After the Coin ETF, Solidx Bitcoin Trust is up abutting for a accommodation by the SEC. On January 3, the SEC announced “March 30, 2017 as the date by which the Commission 
should either accept or blame the proposed aphorism change (File No. SR-NYSEArca-2016-101)”. This aphorism change pertains to the advertisement and trading of Solidx Bitcoin Trust on the NYSE Arca. That date will not be pushed advanced because March 30 is on a Thursday.
The third Bitcoin ETF cat-and-mouse for a accommodation by the SEC is Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) to account GBTC on the NYSE Arca. The proposed aphorism change for the BIT was published in the Federal Register on February 9. The SEC has not appear how continued it will booty to accomplish a accommodation on the BIT. However, the latest date it could be is October 7, which is 240 canicule from February 9. Since this date additionally avalanche on a Saturday, the accommodation on the BIT could be pushed to the afterward Monday, October 9.
By these deadlines, the Commission can either accept or blame the aphorism changes proposed by corresponding exchanges to account and barter Bitcoin ETFs. The Commission additionally has the advantage of accomplishing annihilation which agency the proposed aphorism changes will be accounted automatically approved.
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