The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved 11 exchange-traded funds (ETF) that hold Bitcoin on Wednesday night, paving the way for those companies to begin trading Thursday morning and bringing the cryptocurrency further into mainstream American markets. As Sean Previl explains, this could have big implications for cryptocurrency and pave an easier path for people to invest in crypto.
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