After a long wait, US markets regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally gave a go-ahead to the spot bitcoin ETFs on Wednesday, a move that led to a massive jump in the bitcoin prices.
Bitcoin was trading around $46,954 at 4.45 pm, up 2.9 percent in the past 24 hours, shows CoinDeskdata. In the early hours of Wednesday, bitcoin price had topped $47,000 before paring some of the gains.