This year's Christmas Day is the earliest possible formal date for the SEC to approve the first Bitcoin SPOT ETF.
Grayscale Investment CEO, Michael Sonnenheim is confident that his application to convert the flagship product Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTCQX: GBTC) into a Bitcoin Spot ETF will be approved by the SEC. He derives this from the agency's recent approval of various bitcoin futures ETFs.
That would indeed be a watershed moment for the entire Crypto space, if there were not the SEC ...
Markus Hammer's and other market experts' views on the first Bitcoin Futures ETF issuance in the U.S. (i.e. the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO)) - in an article of Andrew Singer in Cointelegraph