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Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com,

Hong Kong’s securities regulator reportedly approved the in-kind creation model for Bitcoin and Ether ETFs instead of the cash-create model in the United States.

Hong Kong has become the latest country to approve spot exchange-traded funds (ETF) for Bitcoin and Ether, with local regulators issuing approvals to at least three local issuers.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) conditionally approved its (more…)

Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com,

The potential approval of the first batch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong could be a big catalyst for Bitcoin’s halving rally, commentators say.

Hong Kong could approve 4 Bitcoin ETFs before halving

The Securities Regulatory Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) could approve the first batch of spot Bitcoin ETFs by April 15, days before the Bitcoin halving is set to cut the supply issuance rate of BTC. (more…)

Authored by Unchained CSO Dhruv Bansal via BitcoinMagazine.com,

Bitcoin is often compared to the internet in the 1990s, but I believe the better analogy is to the telegraph in the 1840s.

The telegraph was the first technology to transmit encoded data at near-light speed over long distances. It marked the birth of the telecommunications industry. The internet, though it is bigger in scale, richer in content, and manyto-many instead of one-to-one, is fundamentally still a (more…)