Scaramucci: Spot ETF Will Help Wall Street's Salesforce Drive Billions Into Bitcoin

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci is predicting a spot Bitcoin ETF approval will drive billions of new value to the sector.

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Wall Street Eyes $100 Billion Potential for Bitcoin Spot ETF, Three Reasons Why SHIB Wallets Soared 14,793% in 20 Months, Ripple CTO Spooks XRP Army: Crypto News Digest by U.Today

U.Today's daily news digest keeps you informed of the most important updates in the crypto industry

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Bitcoin Spot ETF: Wall Street Eyes $100 Billion Potential

Market for potential spot Bitcoin ETF could reach $100 billion, per estimates

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Spot Bitcoin ETF Excitement Hits Main Street, Google Search Indicates

Many market participants expect the SEC to greenlight the first U.S.-based spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund early next year.

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Franklin Templeton Becomes Latest Wall Street Heavyweight To File With SEC For Spot Bitcoin ETF

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SEC decision on Bitcoin ETFs won’t leave out Wall Street giants

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s prolonged deliberation over a spot Bitcoin ETF is stoking expectations of a joint decision for all applications.

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Larry Fink unpacks BlackRock’s approach to crypto, saying it can “transcend any one currency”

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street this morning, further propelling the excitement around the firm’s recent filing with the SEC for a spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF).

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SEC Allegedly Attempts To Reshuffle Bitcoin ETF Fillings

In today’s latest development, the United State Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) has deemed the recent spot Bitcoin ETF filings by various asset managers as “inadequate. ” According to a report by Wall Street Journal, the U.

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Roughly $90M liquidated in 2hrs as Bitcoin sinks below $30K

Quick Take Roughly $90 million of liquidations occurred in the past two hours on the news that the spot ETFs that have been filed are inadequate, according to Wall Street Journal. Coinglass reported $87 million of liquidations in the past hour, while $100 million in the past four hours as Bitcoin broke below $30,000.

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Report: SEC Demand Clarity And Comprehensive Information For Spot Bitcoin ETF Filings

According to the Wall Street Journal, the SEC has found the spot ETF filings lacking in info, requesting firms refile with more.

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Bitcoin breaks below $30k as WSJ reports SEC will block spot Bitcoin ETFs again

Bitcoin’s value slid below the $30,000 mark as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) signals an impending block on spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

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Fidelity set to file for spot Bitcoin ETF

Fidelity, an investment giant with $4. 2 trillion in assets under management, is reportedly set to file for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The imminent application by the Wall Street colossus comes after industry giant BlackRock sparked a wave of spot Bitcoin ETF applications from several investment and financial services providers.

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Crypto Biz: The race for a Bitcoin spot ETF, Wall Street’s new crypto exchange and more

The bid for the first Bitcoin spot ETF in the United States is gaining traction following BlackRock’s recent application.

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Gensler's 'legendary' opposition to spot Bitcoin ETFs gets a new critic

Gary Gensler's "legendary" opposition to the adoption of a spot Bitcoin ETF has been criticized by The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. The sharply worded opinion piece, which was released on 6 JuThe post Gensler's 'legendary' opposition to spot Bitcoin ETFs gets a new critic appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Grayscale Partners With Jane Street, Virtu Financial For Pending Spot Bitcoin ETF

Grayscale has signed on two leading market makers to serve as authorized participants in its upcoming spot bitcoin ETF, pending SEC approval.

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Grayscale Lines Up Jane Street and Virtu as 'Authorized Participants' if GBTC Converts to ETF

Grayscale is awaiting a decision from the SEC on its GBTC product in hopes of converting to a spot Bitcoin ETF.

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Wall Street Bank Cowen To Offer Spot Bitcoin Trading

The firm leveraged its small footprint to fast-track its way into offering spot instead of futures trading of bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

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CoinShares, ConsenSys, Blockchain Labs, and Techemy Capital & Others Collaborate with Leverj.io to bring DeFi Derivatives to Market

Following three years of development by Wall Street veterans, Leverj  recently launched the first high-speed decentralized derivatives exchange, which provides spot and futures trading of cryptocurrencies. Today, DeFi...

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Wall Street Bitcoin Futures at a $500 Premium, Why?

Bitcoin is trading $500 above spot price at CME for the December futures contract, with a premium found for every month. Even for August, bitcoin is more expensive on CME... The post Wall Street Bitcoin Futures at a $500 Premium, Why? appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Square's Stock Tanks but Its Bitcoin Business Is Roaring

Square's stock fell more than 6 percent in after-hours trading after the company disappointed Wall Street with its outlook. One bright spot for the payments company is bitcoin, which users can buy and sell on the Cash App and which they are increasingly doing.

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Square’s Stock Tanks but Its Bitcoin Business Is Roaring

Square’s stock fell more than 6 percent in after-hours trading after the company disappointed Wall Street with its outlook. One bright spot for the payments company is bitcoin, which users can buy and sell on the Cash App and which they are increasingly doing.

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Bitcoin [BTC] Futures contract show strong Volume/Open Interest on the eve of contract expiry

With the Bitcoin [BTC] Spot market in a stand-still relative to the price upswings of the past months, the Futures market is taking the baton, leading the charge as the price continues to hover below $9,000.

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Just In: ErisX, Bakkt competitor, receives $20 million in Series B funding

Institutional investors in the cryptocurrency world are on the horizon as the industry looks to move into the mainstream. Cryptocurrency exchange ErisX secured an additional $20 million from several new investors as it gears up for an imminent launch in the spot market.

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Did Bitcoin’s Q4 2018 Price Performance Prove It’s Not Digital Gold? Think Again

Writing for Market Watch Tuesday, Aaron Hankin asserts that Bitcoin’s price plunge along with the NASDAQ and other equities benchmarks in Q4 2018 proves Bitcoin is more like a tech stock than digital gold as some Bitcoin proponents have characterized it.

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Wall Street Still Throwing Billions At Bitcoin, But There’s Still A Ways To Go

Since Bitcoin volumes began to dissipate in late-2018, which came alongside price plunges, the crypto’s curious investors have sought to determine where the money has fled. For the longest time, it was assumed that over-the-counter (OTC) desks picked up where spot exchanges, namely Bitfinex and Coinbase, were slacking.

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Bitcoin’s Institutionalization: Dates to Watch in 2019

It’s been over a year since the Cboe and CME listed the world’s first bitcoin futures contracts, the first ever bitcoin investment product to hit the legacy market.

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Sold! Lightning Network Art Auction Goes to the Lowest Bidder

Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.

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NASDAQ Reportedly Looking Into Bitcoin Futures Despite Bear Market

An unconfirmed report released today, November 27, 2018, claims that NASDAQ has plans to launch bitcoin-based futures contracts, and that these plans are continuing to go forward despite the recent crypto crash.

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Instagram’s rumored School Stories could be cool — with rigorous moderation

Word on the street is that Instagram is testing a new, collaborative kind of Story — specifically, a kind which would be used within schools. While it’s in no way confirmed the app will ever have this feature, it could turn out to be a positive thing for students, if done properly.

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Coinbase Ditches Its Index Fund in Favor of a New Retail Feature

Coinbase – one of the largest digital currency exchanges in the U. S. – is nixing its index fund designed for accredited investors and shifting its focus to a new retail product, The Block reportshttps://theblockcrypto.

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Morgan Stanley Eyes Bitcoin Swap Contracts Tied to Futures Prices

Morgan Stanley is joining Wall Street’s race toward an institutional-friendly bitcoin derivative. According to anonymous sources reporting to Bloomberg, the financial institution is devising price return swaps tied to bitcoin.

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Wolf of Wall Street Has Grave Warning for Bitcoin Investors

Notorious penny stock broker and convicted scammer, Jordan Belfort, has a warning for Bitcoin investors, claiming that his experience scamming innocent people gives him a greater ability to spot scams.

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CFTC Subpoenas Leading Exchanges for Trading Data

According to anonymous sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is coordinating with the U. S. Justice Department in conducting investigations into price manipulation in the spot BTC markets.

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