Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler’s statement on why the agency has approved the listing and trading of a group of spot bitcoin ETFs indicates that he is still hostile to the cryptocurrency in general. Gensler was faced with the difficult task of explaining why the SEC has reversed its position on bitcoin ETFs. He said that circumstances “have changed.” They changed because the SEC lost a key court case last August: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the commission failed to adequately explain its reasoning when it turned down Grayscale’s proposed bitcoin ETF. Gensler was ... (full story)