Almost a month after Michael Saylor’s Strategy helped push bitcoin down about 20% in a week by selling just 32 bitcoins for $2.5 million, the company announced it may sell far more aggressively. In an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Strategy on June 29 announced its Digital Credit Capital Framework, allowing it to sell as much as $1.25 billion worth of bitcoin to build its cash reserve, pay dividends, and fund stock buybacks. Despite that, Strategy plans to maintain its long-term strategy of aggressively building its bitcoin treasury, currently at 847,363 BTC. While the sale of 32 bitcoins represented just 0.004% of its holdings, the shock…
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Goldman Sachs reopening Bitcoin trading desk, looking at ETF: Report
The bank is exploring the potential of launching a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund and is said to be looking for a digital asset custodian partner
A person familiar with the situation reportedly said that Goldman Sachs will restart its Bitcoin futures trading desk, first proposed and then cancelled in 2018. The financial giant is expected to offer the futures and non-deliverable forwards for clients from next week.
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NYDIG is the third company applying for the Gensler-era SEC's approval on a bitcoin ETF (Photo: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)New York Digital Investment Group seeks Bitcoin ETF approval
The Bitcoin-focused firm’s filing, which includes a partnership with Morgan Stanley, comes as Canada approved two Bitcoin ETFs in a week
NYDIG’s U.S. application with the SEC joins others by investment firm VanEck, which filed on Dec. 30, and the Feb. 5 filing by bitcoin fund manager Valkyrie Digital Assets. The three U.S. applications are just the latest step in a years-long and so far useless battle by bitcoin proponents to launch an ETF in the U.S. But with anti-bitcoin SEC Chairman Jay Clayton replaced by a new, crypto-knowledgeable acting SEC chairman in Gary Gensler, many believe that is about to change.
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MIT blockchain prof Gary Gensler to head SEC: Report
Citing two sources, Reuters is claiming that the Biden administration intends to appoint the former CFTC commissioner to head the Securities and Exchange Commission
An SEC chairman who understands and appreciates the potential of blockchain and cryptocurrencies would likely be a huge improvement over the recently departed SEC chairman Jay Clayton, who has been a staunch opponent of allowing bitcoin exchange traded funds, often citing rampant market manipulation.
