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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by askmike on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:39PM (#13843111)
While technically nothing changed, the SEC approving an ETF directly tied to bitcoin would have changed how Bitcoin is perceived by a lot of people.

> Nothing about the currency actually changed.

You can say this about about everything: "while nothing about the pound changed, brexit caused the price to go down."

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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by slg on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:54PM (#13843180)
Brexit had real world impact on how the currency would be used in the future and the strength of the economy of the country that stands behind it. The SEC decision does none of that.
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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by baddox on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:38PM (#13843393)
The SEC decision very clearly has real world impact on how Bitcoin will be used in the future.
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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by askmike on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:19PM (#13843310)
> The SEC decision does none of that.

That's because Bitcoin isn't directly tied to any economy. But just as Brexit had a real world impact on the pound, the SEC decision had a real world impact on bitcoin: It is directly tied to how people perceive Bitcoin, which is an import aspect just as well.

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