• Bitcoin $20T Shark Tank O'Leary
    Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary was a secret Bitcoin hodler and public naysayer (Photo: Stansberry Research)
    Bitcoin,  People,  Regulation

    Bitcoin headed to $20T: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary

    The one-time crypto naysayer has changed his tune—and come out as a long-time hodler—thanks to regulators’ recent embrace of Bitcoin exchange traded funds

    March 3, 2021 /

    During an interview with market research firm Stansberry Research, O'Leary said that a target price of $100,000 per Bitcoin does not seem improbable to him anymore. O’Leary, who once said he would never invest in Bitcoin, admitted that he has had both Bitcoin and Ether investments since 2017, but “not really been able to speak about it because regulators really frowned on it.”

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  • Bitcoin ETF coming Valkyrie Kilburg
    Valkyrie Digital Assets' Jeff Kilburg says a Bitcoin ETF is coming this year (Photo: Twitter)
    Bitcoin,  Regulation

    Valkyrie’s Jeff Kilburg confident Bitcoin ETF coming this year

    With Gary Gensler at the Security and Exchanges Commission and firms like Tesla buying BTC, Kilburg believes the Bitcoin exchange-traded fund’s time has come

    February 11, 2021 /

    While firms like Gemini and Bitwise repeatedly tried and failed to win SEC approval, Kilburg cited the change in leadership at the SEC and promising developments in the space as reasons for his optimism, saying “this is all coming together here in 2021.”

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  • VanEck makes another ETF run
    Will Bitcoin ETF applications fare any better under the crypto-skeptical Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen? (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    Bitcoin,  Regulation

    VanEck makes another Bitcoin ETF run

    Will the investment management firm’s latest proposal fare any better with an SEC under the control of crypto-skeptic and Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen?

    January 1, 2021 /

    Investment management firm VanEck has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. VanEck is clearly hoping that the departure of SEC chairman Jay Clayton will give its latest ETF application a chance.

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