A wave of optimism around the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin (
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But that could be just the beginning: If a spot Bitcoin (
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The spot Bitcoin (
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According to many analysts, a spot Bitcoin (
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The SEC has so far rejected all spot Bitcoin (
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One is the involvement of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, which filed for a spot Bitcoin (
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The second is the court ruling that required the SEC to revisit a previous rejection of Grayscale’s application for a spot Bitcoin (
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“The Grayscale decision ultimately says that you can’t allow Bitcoin (
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That is why, according to Seyffart, the odds of a spot Bitcoin (
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