Bitcoin 
$76,042 price is hovering around the $117,800 mark, with several significant developments occurring in the last few minutes. This week has been truly dizzying, and if you check the latest news, you’ll see how intense the last-minute updates have been. A positive announcement from the SEC just arrived, shortly after a declaration from Strategy. But what is the bad news?
Strategy Makes a Massive Bitcoin Purchase
Strategy, known for initiating the cryptocurrency reserve narrative globally, has announced a new billion-dollar acquisition. The company, trading under Nasdaq: MSTR/STRK/STRF/STRD, completed the public offering of its STRC (Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock). What does this signify? The company generated $2.521 billion in cash, using it to purchase 21,021 BTC.
The average cost of these acquisitions was $117,256, just a few hundred dollars below the current price.
SEC Approves ETF Payment Requests
Approval of in-kind payments for BTC and ETH ETFs was eagerly awaited. This means that someone owning BlackRock’s IBIT fund can redeem it in BTC currency. This applies to all BTC and ETH ETFs. As it reduces costs and increases demand, the approval for in-kind issuance and redemptions marks a significant development.
The removal of unnecessary costs and liabilities makes this an essential step, stated the official announcement. With this model, authorized participants must redeem ETP shares for US dollars, forcing ETP issuers to buy or sell crypto assets in the open market. This situation incurs significant transaction costs, exposing the product and its investors to price shifts in the underlying asset class and making the ETP more expensive. The 2024 order by the Commissioner fails to adequately explain why this new structure for spot crypto ETPs should differ from other commodity ETPs.
Today’s order is consistent with the SEC’s mission to protect investors and ensure fair, orderly, and efficient markets. Crypto asset ETPs can now use the same creation and redemption processes as similar products, providing investors access to the products they’ve shown interest in for years. The Commission’s decision eliminates market asymmetries and inefficiencies caused by cash redemption operations. In-kind redemptions offer cheaper, more transparent risk management tools for crypto asset ETPs, better aligning with how asset managers and investors use ETPs in other markets.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart also expressed satisfaction with the development and wrote:
“In-kind issuance/redemptions have been approved for spot Bitcoin and spot Ethereum 
$2,369 ETFs. Approvals for Altcoin ETFs are likely to allow in-kind issuance/redemptions from the start.”
Massive Bitcoin Whale Sales
The bad news of the day was provided by Kyle. Miners recently sent $2 billion worth of BTC to Binance, marking one of the most significant daily inflows ever.
“Is this a simple profit realization around $120,000, or are we seeing the first signs of a risk-averse tendency before macroeconomic fluctuations begin? The next move might provide a clue.” – Kyle
