Bitcoin (BTC) witnessed a volatile trading session on the last day of the quarter. The bulls were trying to maintain Bitcoin’s price above $31,000 but they received a jolt on a Wall Street Journal report which stated that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had returned applications for the Bitcoin spot-price exchange-traded fund
Month: July 2023
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will present its response to Coinbase’s first legal defense on July 13, according to a court order issued on Thursday, June 29. In a legal document filing, the SEC submitted a request to the court for a three-business-day extension. This extension was sought to provide the SEC
Top Stories This Week US SEC deems spot Bitcoin ETFs filings as inadequate There may be a longer wait for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States, as the Securities and Exchange Commission labeled investment managers’ recent applications inadequate. The SEC told the Nasdaq and the Chicago Board Options Exchange that their
Bitcoin (BTC) gained 12% in June, but one forecast sees the good times soon fading for bulls. In a tweet on July 1, popular trader CryptoBullet admitted that July might not offer much more BTC price upside. Trader: BTC price rally “likely” ending this month Despite a last-minute dive, thanks to a macro news event,
A federal court ordered crypto exchange Kraken to turn over account and transaction information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which said it needed that information to see if any of the exchange’s users had underreported their taxes. As per the order issued on Friday, June 30, Kraken is required to provide details of users
The introduction of a spot-based Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) would make the asset more accessible to individual investors and mutual funds. What’s more, unlike a futures-based Bitcoin ETF, a spot-based ETF involves actually buying BTC. So will the approval of the first Bitcoin ETF be a bullish event? Not necessarily. GBTC ‘discount’ remains in
Base, a new layer 2 application-focused protocol by Coinbase has just one criteria left to fulfil before being ready for mainnet launch. On June 29, the team said the Optimism-powered, Ethereum-secured network has been subject to six months of rigorous security audits — both internally and externally — its second-last criteria required for launch. “With
A Redditor and member of the r/CryptoCurrency community is claiming to be up 25% or $19,500, after taking out three personal loans worth a combined $59,000 to buy Bitcoin (BTC) over the past 18 months. According to the Redditor, whose account is crudely named “Vaginosis-Psychosis,” they now have a total of 2.65 BTC, which is
An open letter to lawmakers in the European Union was issued by more than 160 executives from tech companies around the world urging careful consideration of artificial intelligence (AI) regulations not to stunt the industry or markets. On June 30, executives from companies such as Renault, Meta, Spanish telecom company Cellnex and German investment bank