BTC price jumps to 2-week highs on Grayscale vs. SEC Bitcoin ETF win
Bitcoin (BTC) neared two-week highs on Aug. 29 as news hit that digital asset manager Grayscale had won a lawsuit against United States regulators.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView captured an instant BTC price reaction to the event, with BTC/USD gaining $1,700 in around 30 minutes.
The news upended a stale Bitcoin trading environment which had endured after snap losses in mid-August.
A ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stated that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was wrong to reject an application by Grayscale to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) using the Bitcoin spot price as its basis.
“The denial of Grayscale's proposal was arbitrary and capricious because the SEC failed to explain its different treatment of similar products,” an unverified copy circulating online states.
Grayscale thus joins the waiting list of firms seeking to launch what would become the first U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF, with the SEC yet to approve any application.
At the time of writing, BTC/USD circled $27,300, having reached as high as $27,723 on Bitstamp.
Data from the Binance BTC/USD order book uploaded to X by monitoring resource Material Indicators covered the uptick, with all order classes boosting buying in what was a market lacking liquidity.
“A 6-month view of order book data shows thin liquidity to the upside that should be quite easy to exploit for a retest of the $30s, but we've yet to see enough sentiment to do that because the market fears what will happen if BTC starts printing lower lows,” part of analysis issued just prior to the Grayscale announcement stated.
Continuing the reaction, Michaël van de Poppe, founder and CEO of trading firm Eight, suggested
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