Its a sudden But regrettable News that the SEC has ones again rejected a Proposal Regarding BTC, this time by ETF. somehow i saw this comming especially after an earlier rejection of a Winklevloss ETF which proposed physical trading of BTC. The rejection reasons are the same old ones., Market Manipulation being one of the major. To me this is an expression of how badly the SEC wishes they could control BTC and as long as they dont have the control button, no proposal will ever go through. with the current red market situation, im certain that somehow, the decision is going to have negative effects on the BTC value. Which brings the concern of WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO THE CRYPTO KING
You know, it's like telling "Omg, HBO will not show anymore Hollywood productions, what's going to happen with Hollywood?"
Bitcoin is fine. As you can see today's rejection didn't even affect the markets as much as the panicking ones expected.
You've got it right, market manipulation is big. But it's big with or without ETF. All in all life goes on, Bitcoin development and adoption goes on, LN testing goes on and we HODL and wait for better days on the market too.