How American investors are gobbling up booming bitcoin

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Bitcoin has grabbed headlines this week with its dizzying ascent to an all-time high. Yet, under the radar, a trend has been playing out that could change the face of the cryptocurrency market: a massive flow of coin to North America from East Asia.

FILE PHOTO: Representations of Bitcoin and U.S. dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

The change is being driven by an increasing appetite for bitcoin among bigger U.S. investors, according to Reuters interviews with cryptocurrency platforms and investors from the United States and Europe to South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan. Others also point out that cryptocurrency trading is highly opaque compared to traditional assets and patchily regulated, making comprehensive data on the emerging sector rare.

By comparison, a year before, East Asia led the way with 1.3 million a week versus North America’s 766,000.Those interviewed by Reuters said compliance-wary U.S. investors, many of whom had been deterred by the opaque nature of the market in the past, are being attracted by the tightening oversight of the American crypto industry.

“A lot of U.S. funds are trading with large U.S. counterparties,” said Christopher Matta of 3iQ, a Canadian digital asset manager with clients in the United States, citing exchanges such as California’s Coinbase that are overseen by New York financial regulators. Concerns that major retail exchanges linked to China but headquartered elsewhere could be caught up in a crackdown by Beijing may have pushed down demand, said Leo Weese, co-founder of the Hong Kong Bitcoin Association.

 

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