Bitcoin
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Ethereum
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Binance Coin
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XRP
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Cardano
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Dogecoin
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Solana
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Polygon
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Tron
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Litecoin
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Polkadot
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Binance USD
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Shiba Inu
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Wrapped Bitcoin
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Uniswap
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Chainlink
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Cosmos
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Ethereum Classic
$16.86-0.12%
Stellar
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Bitcoin Cash
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Lido DAO
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$4.13-0.88%
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Quant
$109.16-1.22%
Hedera
$0.04834379+1.14%
Crypto.com
$0.05843407-0.04%
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$7.60-0.92%
Arbitrum
$1.13+0.66%
NEAR Protocol
$1.40+0.29%
VeChain
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ApeCoin
$2.89+0.30%
The Graph
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EOS
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Elrond
$34.67-0.15%
The Sandbox
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Optimism
$1.35-1.13%
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$0.62218186-4.86%
Aave
$59.33+0.93%
Fantom
$0.29167714+0.97%
Tezos
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Theta
$0.75910261+1.50%
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Immutable X
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Axie Infinity
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Synthetix
$2.04-2.44%
Flow
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NEO
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Gala
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Injective Protocol
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BitTorrent
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IOTA
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Mina
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Trust Wallet Token
$0.89069151+0.40%
Woo Network
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Zilliqa
$0.02106250+1.08%
Mask Network
$4.14+2.45%
THORChain
$1.07+0.49%
PancakeSwap
$1.55+1.14%
dYdX
$1.94-0.92%
Loopring
$0.24369083+0.59%
Flare
$0.01826904-1.40%
Enjin
$0.29656172+0.08%
Convex Finance
$3.78-1.84%
Basic Attention Token
$0.19452900-0.49%
Illuvium
$49.66-0.13%
FLOKI
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NEM
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Holo
$0.00143055+0.89%
Oasis Network
$0.05012124+3.86%
Baby Doge Coin
$0.000000002.54%
Zcash
$28.79+1.06%
Qtum
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Fetch.ai
$0.22405658-0.12%
Celo
$0.46320458+1.38%
Kusama
$25.71-0.57%
Ethereum Name Service
$8.94-0.27%
Ravencoin
$0.01856984+0.98%
Compound
$31.86-0.18%
SXP
$0.38450809-0.41%
Stepn
$0.22826136-0.07%
Terra 2.0/LUNA
$0.75296715+1.28%
Audius
$0.20009101+1.45%
ICON
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Decred
$13.61+2.74%
Helium
$1.42+1.26%
IoTeX
$0.02160150+1.79%
BLUR
$0.41521414-0.92%
Bitcoin Gold
$11.62-1.07%
Yearn Finance
$5,885.86-1.76%
Ankr
$0.02342184+0.78%
JasmyCoin
$0.00399707-1.88%
EthereumPoW
$1.73+1.15%
Moonbeam
$0.25920963-0.07%
0x
$0.19786451-0.34%
Braintrust
$0.66290473-2.39%
Wax
$0.04741154+0.02%
Harmony
$0.01274068+1.73%
Waves
$1.56+0.47%
Band Protocol
$1.23+2.33%
Siacoin
$0.00299224+2.43%
Sushiswap
$0.73704356+2.08%
Joe
$0.40786944-0.07%
SafePal
$0.37484467+0.49%
Aragon
$3.34+2.02%
Synapse
$0.69924891+5.34%
Skale
$0.02916452-1.21%
Livepeer
$4.60-1.90%
Gains Network
$4.20+0.77%
Stargate Finance
$0.61955503+2.63%
TerraUSD
$0.01278419+3.50%
UMA Protocol
$1.73-4.81%
Amp
$0.00217891-1.05%
Ribbon Finance
$0.16331761-0.97%
DigiByte
$0.00717988-0.01%
Alchemy Pay
$0.02314059+0.54%
Lisk
$0.77314184-1.03%
Cartesi
$0.14942860-0.90%
Nervos Network
$0.00323043+3.22%
Polymath Network
$0.11968908-3.23%
NuCypher
$0.08058396-0.01%
Dogelon Mars
$0.00000019-3.83%
Kyber Network
$0.55337684+0.28%
iExec RLC
$1.37+3.08%
SPACE ID
$0.33473093-0.96%
Nano
$0.69603625-2.29%
OMG Network
$0.65857723+1.28%
MetisDAO
$20.00-1.97%
Syscoin
$0.11828101+1.54%
Numeraire
$13.08-1.05%
Smooth Love Potion
$0.00189543+0.39%
Chromia
$0.13853376-0.03%
Celsius
$0.18403474-2.10%
Vulcan Forged PYR
$3.21+3.46%
Ren
$0.07566504-8.89%
Steem
$0.17279064+0.11%
Dent
$0.00077025+0.63%
Secret
$0.34702266+7.65%
NKN
$0.10462530-2.28%
MOBOX
$0.34177133-0.22%
WINkLink
$0.00006983+0.67%
COTI
$0.05345130+0.48%
Bifrost
$0.05012229+4.73%
Civic
$0.07799614-2.44%
Request
$0.08086378+2.21%
Bancor
$0.38897690+0.96%
Keep Network
$0.10724542-1.66%
Spell Token
$0.00049899-0.74%
Sun Token
$0.00574313+0.60%
CEEK VR
$0.06267286-1.20%
Index Chain
$0.06642700+3.10%
Augur
$5.96+0.06%
WazirX
$0.10185360+2.12%
XYO Network
$0.00351516-0.15%
Storj
$0.30700722+2.00%
SuperRare
$0.07117941-0.25%
Stormx
$0.00387076+1.34%
RACA
$0.00012387+2.26%
Reef
$0.00181645+0.26%
Raydium
$0.19658178+3.38%
LooksRare
$0.07534463+2.08%
Moonriver
$5.77+1.93%
Saitama
$0.00086681-0.52%
GAS
$2.57+1.52%
Adventure Gold
$0.45964572+2.33%
Voyager Token
$0.12090734+2.28%
Orchid
$0.05736385-0.17%
Star Atlas DAO
$0.17301283+4.27%
Polkastarter
$0.30901823+1.40%
Yield Guild Games
$0.16431894+1.04%
Verge
$0.00172804+0.57%
Kishu Inu
$0.0000000011.45%
Serum
$0.07007315+1.10%
Alpaca Finance
$0.17119050+3.96%
Enzyme
$16.71-0.99%
Ampleforth Governance
$2.55+4.34%
Blue Zelle
$0.05891991+2.53%
Quickswap
$47.96+1.17%
CLV
$0.03747376+1.10%
district0x
$0.02840000+18.18%
Star Atlas
$0.00178713+8.27%
Stafi
$0.32082423+3.83%
Harvest Finance
$24.19+1.63%
Samoyedcoin
$0.00384300+11.05%
Rarible
$1.07+2.24%
Green Satoshi Token
$0.01418168+0.48%
Tokemak
$0.72345245+0.43%
Quantstamp
$0.01228426+2.45%
Mirror Protocol
$0.02834141+0.39%
SingularDTV
$0.000402100.00%
FTX Token
$1.05+1.33%
Pepe
$0.00000107+2.54%
Tether
$1.00+0.04%
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SEC Staff Calls Bitcoin “Highly Speculative,” Hints at ETF Skepticism

May 12, 2021

According to a published staff statement, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says bitcoin is a “highly speculative” asset.

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