Bitcoin

A growing chorus of firms such as Fidelity, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs have announced plans for a variety of services around cryptocurrency trading.

The proposals failed to show how exchanges would “prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices," the commission said.

The SEC, wary of bringing crypto to the masses, postponed a decision last week from VanEck and SolidX and rejected a proposal from the Winklevoss twins.

Part of the problem stems from how slow regulators have been to define their views of virtual currencies.

The SEC called into question the ability of the cryptocurrency’s exchanges to sufficiently police trading.

The CFA Institute is adding the topics to its Level I and II curriculums for the first time next year.

More retirement investors are including cryptocurrency in their portfolio because it helps them achieve diversification.

About a quarter of advisors treat cryptocurrencies as something akin to gambling: "only worth investing money you can stand to lose.”

“Everyone who isn’t keeping keys themselves is keeping them with Xapo,” said Ryan Radloff of CoinShares.

The tax treatment of bitcoin and its ilk raises major questions.