THELOGICALINDIAN - SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has aggregate why the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC absitively to accept a bitcoin futures exchangetraded armamentarium ETF to barter on the NYSE Meanwhile the Commission has not accustomed a atom bitcoin ETF
Why SEC Approves Bitcoin Futures ETF
As the aboriginal futures-based bitcoin exchange-traded armamentarium (ETF) in the U.S. debuted on the NYSE, the administrator of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) explained why the regulator greenlighted a bitcoin futures ETF but not a atom bitcoin ETF.
In an account with CNBC Tuesday, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler common that his bureau “should be technology neutral, but not action neutral.” He elaborated:
“Bitcoin futures accept been overseen by our affinity agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC], which I was already accustomed and appreciative to serve there and that’s been four years,” the SEC arch continued.
He added that one of the applications “went able with attention to those articles over at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange [CME] that our affinity bureau oversees.”
Responding to a catechism about why the SEC has accustomed a bitcoin futures ETF but not a atom bitcoin ETF, Gensler acclaimed that he will not animadversion on any specific appliance or project. However, the SEC arch clarified:
While emphasizing that bitcoin is “still a awful abstract asset chic and admirers should accept that beneath this, it still has that aforementioned aspect of animation and speculation,” the SEC administrator concluded: “Our sister bureau is administering this for four years and again it brings it central an 80-year-old law actuality at the SEC.”
The Proshares Bitcoin Strategy ETF, ticker “BITO,” began trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). “The armamentarium seeks to accommodate basic acknowledgment primarily through managed acknowledgment to bitcoin futures contracts,” its website details, abacus that it “does not advance anon in bitcoin.”
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