The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected an application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) submitted by the Winklevoss twins. The announcement could be damning for all other ETF applications that have been submitted to the regulator in recent months. SEC Cites Potential Market Manipulation, Lack of Investor Protection, and Security for Rejection […]
At the time of this article, the news from the Winklevoss ETF being denied by the SEC is still fresh and it is unclear what impact it may have on the overall macro trend of the market. Prior to the ETF ruling, the bulls continued to show demand as the bitcoin market saw a strengthening […]
The bitcoin price careened back toward $8,000 on Thursday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected the Winklevoss twins’ second attempt to create a bitcoin ETF and list it on a regulated stock exchange. The bitcoin price had entered the evening trading at approximately $8,300, a mark it managed to hold until shortly […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again rejected an effort by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to list a bitcoin ETF.
South Carolina’s securities regulator has ended cease-and-desist orders against two blockchain startups, public documents revealed Thursday.
Scams are an epidemic in the crypto space, and clumsy actions by big tech companies can open up the opportunities, as MetaMask learned recently.
“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken’s TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized. Under this model, each token (in theory) should be backed 1:1 with a corresponding dollar in a related bank account. This model may not play out in practice as it does in […]
On a positive note, altcoins are on a recovery path and syncing with last week’s bulls. Not only are we seeing respectable gains in Litecoin, EOS and IOTA-which by the way is reversing from 90 cents, but the fact that LTC bulls are now retesting $90 is encouraging from a bull perspective. Hopefully, coin specific […]
Mike Novogratz, bitcoin advocate and founder of Galaxy Digital, believes that the cryptocurrency market capitalization won’t reach $800 billion by the end of this year, as he previously predicted. However, the billionaire investor maintains that it will do so within the next 12 months. Cryptocurrency Market Headed to $800 Billion in Calendar Year In an […]
Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization. A […]