BREAKDOWN: Why Some US Congressmen Are Asking Gensler About a Bitcoin Spot ETF
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The co-chairs of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus are not pleased.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On today’s episode, NLW follows up on the burgeoning bitcoin-mayor competition between New York City’s Eric Adams and Miami’s Francis Suarez. The show’s main topic is an open letter sent by Congressional Blockchain Caucus co-chairs Rep. Tom Emmer and Rep. Darren Soto to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler about the recent approvals of bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded funds. They argue it simply doesn’t make sense to approve a futures ETF but not a spot ETF that holds actual bitcoin. Surprise, surprise, the crypto community agrees.
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| 0:00.0 | The SEC might just write this off as these two guys who care so deeply about crypto and blockchains |
| 0:05.9 | and Bitcoin, just being loud again. But it sort of doesn't matter. What matters is that they're |
| 0:10.8 | saying it. What matters is that they're articulating it. What matters is that they're writing it |
| 0:14.7 | in plain English and asking for specific answers to these specific critiques. If the SEC and |
| 0:19.6 | Chair Gensler do decide to respond, at least |
| 0:22.2 | we'll have more insight into their position vis-a-vis these specific questions. In other words, |
| 0:27.1 | we'll have a better understanding of what actually is holding a spot ETF back rather than just |
| 0:31.6 | making guesses at it. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:43.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:49.7 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:58.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, November 4th, and today we are talking about why some congressmen are asking about a Bitcoin spot ETF. Before that, however, I want to say a big, |
| 1:05.4 | happy anniversary to my wife, Jesse. It has been eight years today, each year better than the last, except for the |
| 1:12.7 | hard ones in the middle. Let's forget those. By the way, hard because of business things, not because of |
| 1:18.0 | our relationship. That has been The Rock, and I love you, and I'm so excited to be on this journey |
| 1:23.2 | with you. Now, with that said, I want to start today's actual show with an update from New York City. |
| 1:30.5 | I told you guys yesterday that New York had gotten its first Bitcoin mayor. Eric Adams won his |
| 1:36.7 | primary over the summer and then officially won the election earlier this week. |
| 1:41.5 | One of the dimensions I told you about was this idea of a friendly competition |
| 1:46.1 | with Miami. He had mentioned Miami and how he was coming to take all the jobs back that |
| 1:51.7 | Miami had taken from New York City. And yesterday he actually referenced Miami again in a |
| 1:57.2 | conversation on Bloomberg Radio. Remember when Miami launched their own coin? They did it in |
| 2:03.1 | partnership with Citigoin, which is built on the Stacks Protocol. And in this Bloomberg radio |
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