We Need In-Kind Redemptions For The Spot Bitcoin ETFs
On a recent episode of the Coinage podcast, guest SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said that she is open to reconsidering in-kind redemptions for spot bitcoin ETFs.
(For those who arent familiar with the term in-kind redemption, it refers to the ability to withdraw the bitcoin youve purchased via an ETF into your own custody. In essence, it turns a bitcoin IOU into the real thing.)
BREAKING: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce previews new pro-crypto changes coming to the SEC
Coinage (@coinage_media) December 20, 2024
ETF in-kind redemptions and ability for ETF issuers to begin staking likely done "early on"
Both ETFs now have more than $100B in AUM pic.twitter.com/g3jtbuBeWU
This makes my heart happy, as bitcoin wasnt designed to exist trapped within the wrappers of the old system. It was built to set us free from that system.
If Peirce can work with the incoming SEC Chair, Paul Atkins, to facilitate the approval of in-kind redemptions then the spot bitcoin ETFs can serve as some of the biggest on-ramps to Bitcoin, as Bitwise co-founder Hong Kim put it, as opposed to simply existing as speculation vehicles.
Bitcoin was born to exist in the wild. It wasnt born to exist in a Wall Street zoo.
In-kind redemptions would allow the bitcoin currently trapped within the zoo the ability to return to its natural habitat.
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