{"id":194293,"date":"2021-07-04T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=194293"},"modified":"2021-07-04T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T10:27:29","slug":"bitcoin-etfs-are-long-overdue-says-sec-commissioner-hester-peirce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-etfs-are-long-overdue-says-sec-commissioner-hester-peirce\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin ETFs are long overdue, says SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Securities and Exchange Commission\u2019s (SEC) unwillingness to approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S. is outdated and borders on double standards, according to the agency\u2019s commissioner Hester Peirce, also known as \u201cCrypto Mom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat is probably the biggest, the most-often-asked question that I get: When will the SEC approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded product?\u201d she acknowledged in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/02\/bitcoin-etf-should-be-approved-already-sec-regulator-says.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNBC<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The SEC should have approved a bitcoin ETF a long time ago, regulator Peirce says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6NG5DgvRT0\">https:\/\/t.co\/6NG5DgvRT0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNBC (@CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBC\/status\/1411034887197499393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If approved, crypto-focused ETFs would allow institutional investors to get exposure to digital assets without actually holding them. ETFs are a type of investment funds that comprise certain assets (or baskets of them) and issue shares whose prices are pegged to those assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike already existing crypto funds such as Grayscale Investments\u2019 trusts, shares of ETFs are freely tradeable on traditional platforms alongside other \u201cold school\u201d financial products. However, despite numerous attempts to register a Bitcoin ETF\u2014the latest application was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/vaneck-files-bitcoin-mutual-fund-with-sec-even-as-whales-sell-btc-en-masse\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">filed by VanEck in June<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014the SEC has declined all such filings over the past few years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople of a regulatory mindset, when they encounter something new like this, say, \u2018Oh, wait a minute: The market for Bitcoin looks a bit different than the markets we\u2019re used to,\u2019\u201d Peirce explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2020, she said that the SEC adheres to a \u201cunique, heightened standard\u201d when it comes to cryptocurrencies. Thus, the regulator applies different rules to everything that involves digital assets\u2014and much harsher ones than the ones it enforces on traditional equity products.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The SEC's rationale grows weaker<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #5d5d5e; font-family: merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px;\">Nonetheless, the crypto market keeps growing and maturing, so this old way of thinking is becoming obsolete, Peirce noted.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo, I think the markets have matured quite a bit,\u201d she argued. \u201cI thought that if we had applied our standards as we have applied them to other products, we would already have approved one or more of them. With each passing day, the rationale that we have used in the past for not approving seems to grow weaker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, the lack of officially regulated Bitcoin ETFs not only can be perceived as a double standard but could also push investors to other, much riskier alternatives, Peirce continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe complications of not approving [a Bitcoin ETF] become stronger because people are looking for other ways to do the same kinds of things that they would do with an exchange-traded product,\u201d she noted. \u201cThey\u2019re looking at other types of products that aren\u2019t as easy to get in and out of, they\u2019re looking at companies, perhaps, that are somehow connected with Bitcoin or crypto more broadly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>To BTC or not to BTC?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, people should be free to decide for themselves whether to invest in Bitcoin or not, Peirce argued. Especially since as it stands today, the infrastructure of the Bitcoin blockchain is much more robust and decentralized than it was just a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBitcoin now is so decentralized. The number of nodes that are involved in Bitcoin is large, and the number of people who have an interest in keeping that work decentralized is very large,\u201d Peirce said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople should make their own decisions: If people don\u2019t want to buy Bitcoin because they think it\u2019s manipulated, they shouldn\u2019t buy Bitcoin,\u201d she concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission\u2019s (SEC) unwillingness to approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S. is outdated and borders on double standards, according to the agency\u2019s commissioner Hester Peirce, also known as \u201cCrypto Mom.\u201d \u201cThat is probably the biggest, the most-often-asked question that I get: When will the SEC approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":194298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,60840,35372],"tags":[60786],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bitcoin ETFs are long overdue, says SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-etfs-are-long-overdue-says-sec-commissioner-hester-peirce\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bitcoin ETFs are long overdue, says SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Securities and Exchange Commission\u2019s (SEC) unwillingness to approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S. is outdated and borders on double standards, according to the agency\u2019s commissioner Hester Peirce, also known as \u201cCrypto Mom.\u201d \u201cThat is probably the biggest, the most-often-asked question that I get: When will the SEC approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-etfs-are-long-overdue-says-sec-commissioner-hester-peirce\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CryptoSlate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-04T17:30:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-04T10:27:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bitcoin-etf-hester-peirce.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liam Frost\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liam Frost\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-etfs-are-long-overdue-says-sec-commissioner-hester-peirce\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-etfs-are-long-overdue-says-sec-commissioner-hester-peirce\/\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/#person\",\"name\":\"Liam Frost\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/#authorimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/author-liam-frost-300x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/author-liam-frost-300x300.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Liam Frost\"},\"jobTitle\":\"Reporter\",\"description\":\"Liam Frost is a freelance journalist and editor with over 15 years of experience working for various media outlets across the world. 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