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Bitcoin surges past $24,000 on CME launch of BTC event contracts

Bitcoin futures on CME have traded 550,000 contracts since inception.

On March 13th, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the US derivatives market, announced the release of a bitcoin (BTC) futures trading contract. The trading center is under full control and has passed administrative review, and since then it has also helped with cash payments and daily maturing contracts associated with bitcoin futures trading. Investors buy and sell their views on the rising and falling market prices of bitcoin in a lower-cost way. Tim McCourt, world head of stocks and foreign exchange commodities at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, commented:

A new bitcoin futures trading themed activity contract provides a limited risk and relatively highly transparent color method for a wide range of investors to enter the bitcoin market through a thoroughly regulated trading center. This cash payment, daily expiration contract will further fill the existing package content, so far, more than 550000 contracts have been traded.

On March 10, Cointelegraph reported that the spot trading Bitcoin trust application of investment management company Vaneck was rejected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Committee members stressed that SEC rejected every application for spot trading Bitcoin trusts, with a total of nearly 20 Bitcoin spot trading trusts in the past six years.

Not long ago, GrayScale, a digital currency operator, released a written description related to SEC's ongoing lawsuit, mainly because the company refused to convert its GrayScale bitcoin trust (GBTC) into exchange-traded funds (ETF). Based on the text description, the presiding judge Neomi Rao commented:

"because I think that one of these things is essentially a derivative of the other. They move together 99.9% of the time. In that case, what are the differences in the views of the European Commission? "

At this stage, GBTC's transaction price has a 38.19% sales discount to total net assets, more than 50% of the all-time low. The lawsuit between the company and SEC is still under way.

by Zhiyuan Sun
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