{"id":12871,"date":"2024-01-10T01:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/sec-says-compromised-account-to-blame-for-tweet-approving-bitcoin-etf\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T01:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:37:29","slug":"sec-says-compromised-account-to-blame-for-tweet-approving-bitcoin-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/sec-says-compromised-account-to-blame-for-tweet-approving-bitcoin-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC says \u2018compromised\u2019 account to blame for tweet approving Bitcoin ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Price of bitcoin briefly spikes more than $1,000 as ETF would give a way to invest without having to buy outright on a crypto exchange<\/p>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that a post sent from the agency\u2019s account on the social platform Twitter\/X announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund was \u201cunauthorized\u201d, and that the agency\u2019s account had been \u201ccompromised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The price of bitcoin briefly spiked more than $1,000 after the post on X claimed: \u201cThe SEC grants approval for #Bitcoin ETFs for listing on all registered national securities exchanges.\u201d Cryptocurrency investors had already driven bitcoin\u2019s price above $46,000 in anticipation of the approval.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/09\/sec-twitter-account-hacked-bitcoin-etf-not-approved\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b35234c565b6c0201f9f271eecc0db6747364ebb\/0_57_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2c6c8530fe2641de5bc551e30f907bc1\" title=\"SEC says \u2018compromised\u2019 account to blame for tweet approving Bitcoin ETF\" \/>Price of bitcoin briefly spikes more than $1,000 as ETF would give a way to invest without having to buy outright on a crypto exchange<br \/>\nThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that a post sent from the agency\u2019s account on the social platform Twitter\/X announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund was \u201cunauthorized\u201d, and that the agency\u2019s account had been \u201ccompromised\u201d.<br \/>\nThe price of bitcoin briefly spiked more than $1,000 after the post on X claimed: \u201cThe SEC grants approval for #Bitcoin ETFs for listing on all registered national securities exchanges.\u201d Cryptocurrency investors had already driven bitcoin\u2019s price above $46,000 in anticipation of the approval. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price of bitcoin briefly spikes more than $1,000 as ETF would give a way to invest without having to buy outright on a crypto exchange The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that a post sent from the agency\u2019s account on the social platform Twitter\/X announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/sec-says-compromised-account-to-blame-for-tweet-approving-bitcoin-etf\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEC says \u2018compromised\u2019 account to blame for tweet approving Bitcoin ETF<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}