UBS Will Let Some Customers Trade Bitcoin ETFs, Contrary to Rumors: Source
The Zürich-based banking giant’s decision contrasts with Vanguard’s decision to bar customers from buying bitcoin ETFs.
The Zürich-based banking giant’s decision contrasts with Vanguard’s decision to bar customers from buying bitcoin ETFs.
“All it was doing was generating noise,” the Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow says of Luke Dashjr’s pull request, which would have severely curtailed the use of Ordinals inscriptions, sometimes known as “NFTs on Bitcoin.”
ARK Invest’s CEO previously predicted the price to reach $1 million by 2030.
They make the asset class “less of a scary concept” to mainstream audiences, bitcoin advocate Jameson Lopp said.
The exchange-traded funds will allow better access to bitcoin through regulated entities and draw institutional investors, but the crypto is still a very small asset class, CoinDesk was told.
Cryptocurrency-focused stocks such as Coinbase and bitcoin miners are also down significantly since Thursday’s market open.
The fund saw about $400 million of inflows within 30 minutes of its trading debut, CF Benchmarks said.
Grayscale received the regulatory green light to convert its flagship product into an ETF on Wednesday.
Mining stocks represent an attractive opportunity for investors looking to gain access to the long-term bitcoin adoption trade, the analysts wrote.
Here’s a ranking of the 11 newly trading bitcoin ETFs, in terms of first-day trading volume.