Unchained: Big Ideas From The Worlds Of Blockchain And Cryptocurrency

The SEC has swatted down so many spot bitcoin ETF applications that crypto diehards simply gave up caring. Then comes TradFi giant BlackRock – at the height of the SEC’s crypto crackdown, no less – with an ETF application that has seemingly changed the calculus. Bloomberg Intelligence ETF watcher James Seyffart joins the show to unpack the odds of BlackRock being the first to win approval, and what it would mean for other players in the space chasing down TradFi’s “holy grail.” Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: why the SEC rejected all of the previous bitcoin spot ETF applications what makes the application from BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, different  what a 19b-4 filing is and how it relates to the BlackRock application whether BlackRock “knows something,” considering the recent enforcement actions against major crypto ex