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Community reacts after SEC’s Gensler affirms BTC’s commodity status

From cointelegraph.com

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler riled up Crypto Twitter on Monday after affirming that Bitcoin (BTC) is a commodity. Questions were raised about its impact on Grayscales’ proposed Bitcoin ETF and why Ethereum wasn’t mentioned. Speaking to Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday, June 27, the SEC chair said while many crypto-financial assets have the key attribute of a security, Bitcoin is the “only one” that he was comfortable publicly labeling as a commodity. “Some, like Bitcoin — and that's the only one I'm going to say because I'm not going to talk about any one of these tokens, but my ... (full story)

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