SEC Commissioner Sees Future Bitcoin ETF as “Definitely Possible”

In a rare extended public interview accorded to the makers of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, aired for the first time yesterday on the occasion of the programme’s first anniversary, SEC commissioner Hester Peirce stated her belief that she saw a future cryptocurrency ETF as “definitely possible” – although she did iterate that the views she was expressing were not necessarily those of the SEC itself.

During the interview, host Peter McCormack asked Peirce whether a future Bitcoin ETF was an “inevitability”, phrasing which she herself did not want to accommodate but in answer to which she acknowledged that there was “significant intellectual capital” being invested by exchanges and institutional investors to that end – although she gave no judgement on the likelihood of such an outcome.

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Peirce, one of the SEC’s five commissioners appointed by the US president to overlook the regulatory landscape for security…