Yesterday holders of bitcoin got an unexpected, if pleasant surprise courtesy of the SEC which announced that two months after deciding against a bitcoin ETF, it would review its decision, suggesting that after several failed attempts, Bitcoin may surge even more soon should the long-awaited Bitcoin-based ETF be ultimately approved.
Bitcoin is up 8 days in a row, pushing back above gold, shaking off its 'fork' concerns and testing towards $1300 today as the SEC announces that it intends to review its decision to reject a bitcoin ETF proposed by the Winklevoss twins.
With the recent crackdown on political "fake news", where a handful of media mega-corporations such as Facebook and Google have emerged as the ultimate arbiter of what is real or isn't, in the process unleashing allegations of conflicts of interest, it was only a matter of time before the SEC got the hint and brought the hammer down. That time is now, because as Reuters reports, the SEC on Monday announced a crackdown against "pump and dump" stock promotion schemes in which writers were secretly paid to post hundreds of bullish articles about public companies on financial websites.
I've been saying Israeli based SeekingAlpha.com was a complete scam for years. Finally, after more than a decade of complete and utter shit, the SEC said 'enough is enough' and has decided to sue.
Today, the SEC filed charges against 27 fuckheads and companies for 'hundreds of conflicting articles' that were published on SeekingAlpha and other sites. This, coming on the day when $STRP got bought out for a 160% premium, after two years worth of wrong-headed short reports from Kerrisdale Capital, is poetic.
The previously discussed fears of an imminent "forking" in Bitcoin have led to the biggest drop in Bitcoin between Thursday and Saturday, as investors sold the digital currency on worries about its future, although it managed to regain some footing on Monday, rebounding back over $1,000. After soaring to an all-time high of $1,350 as recently as March 10 on speculation that regulators could approve the first U.S. bitcoin exchange traded fund the following day (the SEC denied the application but the negative impact was transitory), the digital currency then slipped back.