{"id":25507,"date":"2024-01-09T22:29:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/twitter-hack-at-sec-creates-bitcoin-etf-approval-confusion\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:29:56","slug":"twitter-hack-at-sec-creates-bitcoin-etf-approval-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/twitter-hack-at-sec-creates-bitcoin-etf-approval-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Hack at SEC Creates Bitcoin ETF Approval Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Crypto News &#8211; iGaming.org )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The recent false story about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/cryptocurrencies\/section\/what-is-a-bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> exchange-traded funds (ETFs) highlights the risks of misinformation in the digital age. This incident started with a misleading tweet from the SEC\u2019s official account, which was quickly picked up by various news sources, including Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>On January 9, the SEC account posted a tweet falsely stating that Bitcoin ETFs had been approved for listing in the U.S. It included a fabricated photo and quote attributed to SEC Chair Gary Gensler. This post was online for several minutes before its removal.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Gary Gensler clarified in a post that the SEC had not approved any such Bitcoin ETFs. This correction came after multiple news outlets had already reported the false information from the original tweet.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the details about who hacked the SEC\u2019s Twitter account remain unknown.\u00a0 Shortly after the \u2018hack\u2019 BTC price went up 5% but went down shortly after the approval got denied.<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-org-3-item-ins box-100 relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-items box-100 relative\">\n<div class=\"box-100 space-org-3-item relative border-tb mt-1 \">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-item-ins box-100 relative\">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-item-terms box-25 relative\">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-item-terms-ins box-100 text-center relative\"> <strong>177% up to 5BTC + 77 <strong> Free Spins<\/strong>!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>New players only. Exclusive Welcome Bonus of 177% + 77 Free Spins <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/crypto\/misleading-tweet-sparks-false-reports-on-bitcoin-etf-approval\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Crypto News &#8211; iGaming.org ) The recent false story about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) highlights the risks of misinformation in the digital age. This incident started with a misleading tweet from the SEC\u2019s official account, which was quickly picked up by various news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}