The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently set a strict deadline of December 29th for companies interested in launching exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to the spot Bitcoin price. This development, which emerged from a high-level meeting on December 21st, has garnered significant attention from leading financial entities, including BlackRock, Grayscale Investments, ARK Investments,
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In March 2022, Mikhail Klyukin, a Russian banker under White House sanctions, made headlines when he sold over £15m in shares of UK-based cryptocurrency firm Copper Technologies. The involvement of Copper Technologies, chaired by former Chancellor Philip Hammond, in this transaction has sparked concerns about the transparency of cryptocurrency transactions and the potential evasion of
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Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX’s former CEO and co-founder, Arthur Hayes, recently expressed his concerns about the potential downfall of Bitcoin. Hayes specifically raised reservations about the possible launch of Spot Bitcoin ETFs and the involvement of traditional finance (TradFi) asset managers. In his final article of the year, Hayes argued that if these ETFs were to
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Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto market have the potential to experience a positive year in 2024, driven by various on-chain metrics. A recent weekly report from market analytics platform CryptoQuant highlights several factors that could influence Bitcoin’s trajectory, including the upcoming halving, growing stablecoin liquidity, the anticipated spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval, and
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