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Blockchain Bites: IBM Blockchain Bleeds, Exchange Tokens Pump, ETH Hits New High

A new report from Outlier Ventures provides a map of blockchain development activity. Ethereum, Cosmos and Bitcoin lead the pack.

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Author: Daniel Kuhn

Why Crypto Markets Aren’t ‘All-to-All’ Either (and How They Can Be)

GameStop-Robinhood revealed inequalities in the retail equity trading system. Can crypto markets do better? They must.

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Author: Matthew Trudeau

Bitwise begins process to list its bitcoin fund on OTC Markets

Crypto asset manager Bitwise announced Tuesday that it has begun the regulatory process to list its bitcoin fund on OTC Markets.

If approved, Bitwise Bitcoin Fund will trade like Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) on OTC Markets’ OTCQX venue. Bitwise has not yet announced a ticker for the fund.

Bitwise Bitcoin Fund was first launched in 2018 and has been available via private placements since then, with a minimum investment of $10,000. The listing on OTCQX would mean that any investor with a traditional brokerage account can trade the fund’s shares throughout the trading day.

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise, told The Block that the listing should take place within “months and not a year or years” based on the firm’s prior experience with a crypto index fund with the ticker BITW (BITW was listed on OTCQX last December).

Bitwise Bitcoin Fund is a GBTC rival and charges a lower expense ratio of 1.5% compared to GBTC’s 2%. Lower fees, however, don’t appear to matter much, as The Block reported last week, since GBTC boasts significant liquidity and often trades at a premium.

Hougan, however, told The Block that fees matter for Bitwise’s clientele, i.e., financial advisors. “Advisors typically have a fiduciary duty to their clients and report the fees of their underlying investments on client statements, so they are sensitive to the fee level,” said Hougan.

“A good analogy is to the gold ETF market, I think,” Hougan continued, adding that the first-to-market fund, GLD, has the highest expense ratio (0.40%), the most trading volume, and the most assets ($71 billion). Its top competitor, IAU, has a lower fee (0.25%), less trading volume, and fewer assets ($32 billion).

“By bringing a lower-fee gold ETF to market IAU’s sponsor (iShares) has been able to help investors save millions upon millions in fees over time,” said Hougan, adding that the bitcoin space might see a similar trend.

Another low-cost bitcoin investment, Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC), is also set to list on OTCQX in the coming days. OBTC charges a 0.49% management fee along with additional charges, such as custodial and legal fees, as The Block reported last week. 

It remains to be seen whether low-cost bitcoin products will threaten the position of GBTC, which manages more than $21 billion worth of assets. Bitwise has a total AUM of more than $700 million across its product suite.

© 2021 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

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Author: Yogita Khatri

Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 2, 2021

With BTC rising and a look at what could happen in a post-COVID economy, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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Author: Lyllah Ledesma

One Big Pool: Balancer’s New Version Cuts Down Transactions and Gas Fees

Version 2 of the DeFi site also has an “asset manager” where idle funds earn yield.

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Author: Brady Dale

Ethereum Miners Earned Record $830M in January

Miner revenue jumped over 120% from the previous month.

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Author: William Foxley

Debt Collection Firm CIS Now Accepts Bitcoin for B2B Repayments

Corporate Intelligence Services said it launched the new repayment option to provide a better service its “clientele.”

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Author: Tanzeel Akhtar

Bitwise Files for Approval to Publicly Trade Its Bitcoin Fund

The fund aims to compete with Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust and others by offering a 50 basis point lower expense ratio.

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Author: Sebastian Sinclair

OKEx Exchange to Integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for Faster, Cheaper Transactions

High on-chain fees and transaction times for bitcoin can be off-putting to users, the exchange said.

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Author: Tanzeel Akhtar

State of Crypto: How Will the Government React to GameStop?

Also: Ripple filed its response to the SEC and a FinCEN official discusses the controversial counterparty rule in public for the first time.

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Author: Nikhilesh De


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