SEC 의장은 비트코인 ETF 승인을 거부하고 X 계정이 해킹당했다고 밝혔습니다.

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler is testifying at a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing held at the US Capitol in Washington on September 27, 2023. Reuters Union

 

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday that a post sent from the agency's account announcing the approval of the long-awaited Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to social platform

The price of Bitcoin briefly surged above $1,000 after X, formerly known as Twitter, posted: "SEC approves #Bitcoin ETF for listing on all registered national stock exchanges." Cryptocurrency investors have already driven the price of Bitcoin above $46,000 in anticipation of approval.

ETFs provide a way to invest in Bitcoin without purchasing the cryptocurrency directly on a cryptocurrency exchange such as Binance or Coinbase.

However, shortly after the initial post appeared, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said that the SEC account had been hacked through a personal account and that “the SEC has not approved the listing and trading of Bitcoin spot exchange index products.” Gensler called the post unauthorized without further explanation.

“Welp,” wrote Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten on the X. Like many Bitcoin investors, Klippsten was expecting the agency to approve a Bitcoin ETF as early as this week.

The price of Bitcoin surged from around $46,730 to just below $48,000 after the unauthorized posting, before falling to around $45,200 after the SEC rejected it. It was trading for about $46,150 at 6:15 pm Eastern Standard Time.

It is unclear how the SEC's social media accounts were hacked. It turns out that the SEC gained control of the account shortly after Gensler's statement.

Politicians, especially Republicans, who have long expressed dissatisfaction with the way Gensler runs the SEC, were quick to express outrage over the SEC's lax security controls on its accounts.

“Just as the SEC demands accountability from public companies that made egregious market-moving mistakes, Congress also needs answers for what just happened,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, a member of the Senate Banking Committee.

This isn't the first time market-moving misinformation about Bitcoin's future has emerged on regulated exchanges. Last October, Bitcoin prices soared after an erroneous report suggested that fund manager BlackRock had received approval for a Bitcoin ETF.

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