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Bitcoin has risen above $36,000 and is currently targeting $37,000 as Bloomberg analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart have revived hopes that a Spot Bitcoin ETF could be approved this year. The analysts maintain their belief of a 90% chance that any of these funds get approved by January 2024.\u00a0 An Approval Order \u201cCould\u201d Occur This November In a post shared on his X (formerly Twitter) platform, Seyffart highlighted a new research note that he and Balchunas had just worked on. From their research, they noted that there is a \u201cbrief window\u201d that allows the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve all 12 Spot Bitcoin ETF applications at once.\u00a0 Related Reading: Ethereum Failed Transactions: You Won\u2019t Believe How Much Users Have Lost This brief window (which opens up on November 9) will last for at least eight days, before which it is almost possible for the SEC to approve all applications at once until next year. The reason for their assertion is that the SEC cannot approve an application that is in the comment stage. It so happens that the comment stage of the last applications that the SEC delayed ends on November 8, which is why they highlighted the window that starts from November 9.\u00a0 As to why the window is only going to last for about eight days, the SEC is expected to decide on Hashdex and Franklin\u2019s application on November 17, which could put both applicants in the comment stage. This is because it is expected that the SEC will opt to delay its decisions on those funds and ask the general public for comments on them.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the analysts noted that this window only applies to the SEC approving all 12 applications at once. They explain that \u201ctheoretically,\u201d the Commission could decide on the other applications from now until January 10, 2024, even if it chooses to delay its decision on Hashdex and Franklin\u2019s application on November 17. Whatever happens, they still believe that there is a 90% chance that any of these funds get approved by January 10 next year. A Spot Bitcoin ETF Launch Isn\u2019t So Straightforward When quizzed about how long it will take for these funds to launch after approval, Balchunas mentioned in an X post that he guessed that the \u201c19b-4s\u201d applications would be approved in the \u201cnot so distant future.\u201d Then it will further take a while for the SEC to approve the \u201cS-1s\u201d after which it \u201cwould likely be days till launch.\u201d Related Reading: XRP News: Ripple CEO Teases Major Announcements At Swell Event Seyffart also echoed similar sentiments as he stated that there are \u201ctwo paths\u201d that need to be completed before an ETF launches. One is the 19b-4 approval, after which the division of Corporation Finance at the SEC will still need to sign off on the S-1s. However, there is no sign that any of that has been done yet. As such, it could take \u201cweeks or even months\u201d between approval and launch.\u00a0 Irrespective of that, Bitcoin has picked up on the possibility that Spot Bitcoin ETFs could be approved this month and has ridden on that wave to above $36,000. At the time of writing, the foremost cryptocurrency is trading at around $36,700, up over 4% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. BTC price above $36,600 | Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview.com Featured image from The Economic Times, chart from Tradingview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":559873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,532,656,679,89462,1119,89185,1144,78790,1944,89193,84647],"class_list":["post-559864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-etf","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-bitcoin-price-performance","tag-btc","tag-btc-news","tag-btcusd","tag-btcusdt","tag-etf","tag-etf-news","tag-spot-bitcoin-etf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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