Last month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gave the green light to fund firm Teucrium to issue a bitcoin futures exchange-traded product.
Sal Gilbertie, CEO of Teucrium, pointed out a footnote in the regulator’s approval letter to
CNBC’s ETF Edge.
In reference to the potential for fraud and manipulation it reads:
“If, however, an exchange proposing to list and trade a spot bitcoin [product] identifies… the regulated market with which it has a comprehensive surveillance-sharing agreement, the exchange could overcome the Commission’s concern…”
Crypto firm Grayscale, one of the biggest proponents of a spot-bitcoin ETF and creator of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (BTC), recently threatened to sue to SEC over the issue.
But Gilbertie was not convinced of the effectiveness a such a tack arguing
It would take years. The SEC is not going to succumb to that kind of pressure… unless you get a change in leadership who have a sea-change in how they are looking at things… they want to see crypto coins completely surveilled… I don’t see how they’re going to back down from that when they’re all about investor protection.”
Source:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sec-lays-out-path-to-coveted-spot-bitcoin-etf-but.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboardAccording to his words, we will not see Bitcoin ETF in the United States soon, whatever the type of pressure unless you get a change in leadership, this type of change requires political changes and it will not happen soon? What do you think you were optimistic, especially with what happened in Canada and Australia.