Federal Register - August 6, 2021
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Notices publicly traded companies are gaining only partial exposure to bitcoin and are not fully benefitting from the risk disclosures and associated investor protections that come from the securities registration process.
however, are imperfect bitcoin proxies and provide investors with partial bitcoin exposure paired with a host of additional risks associated with whichever operating company they decide to purchase. Additionally, the disclosures provided by the aforementioned operating companies with respect to risks relating to their bitcoin holdings are generally substantially smaller than the registration statement of a bitcoin ETP, including the Registration Statement, typically amounting to a few sentences of narrative description and a handful of risk factors.48 In other words, investors seeking bitcoin exposure through
CME began offering trading in Bitcoin Futures in 2017. Each contract represents five bitcoin and is based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate.49
The contracts trade and settle like other cash-settled commodity futures contracts. Nearly every measurable metric related to Bitcoin Futures has trended consistently up since launch
yourself? Here are some investing ideas February 19, 2021 available at: https www.cnbc.com/2021/
02/19/ways-to-invest-in-bitcoin-without-holdingthe-cryptocurrency-yourself-.html.
48 See e.g., Tesla 10K for the year ended December 31, 2020, which mentions bitcoin just nine times: https www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/
edgar/data/1318605/000156459021004599/tsla10k_20201231.htm.
49 According to CME, the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate aggregates the trade flow of major bitcoin spot exchanges during a specific calculation window into a once-a-day reference rate of the U.S.
dollar price of bitcoin. Calculation rules are geared
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and/or accelerated upward in the past year. For example, there was approximately $28 billion in trading in Bitcoin Futures in December 2020
compared to $737 million, $1.4 billion, and $3.9 billion in total trading in December 2017, December 2018, and December 2019, respectively. Bitcoin Futures traded over $1.2 billion per day on the CME in December 2020 and represented $1.6 billion in open interest compared to $115 million in December 2019. This general upward trend in trading volume and open interest is captured in the following chart.
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toward maximum transparency and real-time replicability in underlying spot markets, including Bitstamp, Coinbase, Gemini, itBit, and Kraken. For additional information, refer to https
www.cmegroup.com/trading/cryptocurrencyindices/cf-bitcoin-reference-rate.html?redirect=/
trading/cf-bitcoin-reference-rate.html.
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