SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Speaks on Bitcoin ETF

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton spoke about progress on a Bitcoin ETF in a CNBC interview.

The short answer is that progress is being made, but many of the same concerns are still be considered such as the potential of manipulation and the importance of custody.

Here is what was said (see the full interview here and read the transcript here),

“BOB PISANI: Let me ask you about bitcoin. I know I’ve asked you many times about this in the last couple of years, but it’s of intense interest to the viewers. Are we any further along on a bitcoin ETF? I know you did a memo – you and your staff – a year and a half ago, where you made it very clear you were concerned about custody and the security of custody, and you were very concerned about the fact that much of the pricing of bitcoin was done on foreign exchanges that had the potential to be easily manipulated. Now, your realm here is a bitcoin ETF. Are we any closer? Has – have the people involved in the bitcoin businesses in any way come closer to satisfying your concerns?

JAY CLAYTON: The short answer is yes. But there’s — there’s work left to be done. Those were not trivial questions. How do we know that we can custody and have a hold of these crypto assets? That’s a key question. And an even harder question, given that they trade on largely unregulated exchanges, is how can we be sure that those prices aren’t subject to significant manipulation. Now, progress is being made but people needed to answer those hard questions for us to be comfortable that this was the appropriate type of product.”

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btw – be careful what you wish for.

I am not at all convinced that ETF are good for Crytpos – in fact it is an oxymoron. They will use Trillions of dollars of fake, false and phony USD to manipulate the price of BTC. This is their game – as long as the fiat game lasts – They do the same thing today for gold and silver prices with fake COMEX contracts on surpress gold/silver prices since 2008.

Otherwise Gold and Silver (and BTC too) would register 3,000 – 5,000 USD signaling the fact that inflation is rampant – which is bloodly well is. Gold was 220 USD back in 2002 and today (despite blatant surpressing) its at 1,800 USD – There! There’s your inflation for you. They cannot let the public see that…

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So he said f*ck all -as usual?!

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