On March 10, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ruled against a change that would allow investment manager VanEck to create a spot Bitcoin (BTC) trust. Commissioner Mark Uyeda joined his colleague Hester Peirce in releasing a statement criticizing the commission’s decision not to approve the listing and trading of the financial product.
The commissioners noted that the SEC had denied every application for a spot Bitcoin trust that ha been filed, amounting to almost 20 over the last six years. Its decision on VanEck “repeats the analysis that the Commission has given in each of these recent orders,” they said, but: