CoinDesk reported in March that the nation’s finance minister, Wopke Hoekstra, issued a letter to Parliament to advocate for”an global strategy” to govern cryptocurrency.
“By virtue of its newness and the anonymity it possibly offers, it’s very prone to misuse. Given its inability to serve the guaranteed purpose for a money, we don’t regard it to be an asset class,” she continued.
It’s large, and it’s to be controlled quite soon. The market participants are a lot more professional than people believe. Institutional investors are curious — we all know that they are because we get asks.”
XBT Provider, a Stockholm-based firm that offers ETFs according to bitcoin along with ether, affirmed that Deutsche Dealers NV has”dramatically increased” its own securities trading over the last couple of months.

According to Bloomberg, with no major U.S. trading firms currently offering cryptocurrency futuresFlow Traders is the first one to”disclose it’s buying and selling crypto notes based on regulated stock exchanges.”
Nienke Torensma, a spokeswoman for the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), said in a statement that”We discourage actions in cryptos both by customers and professional license holders.”
Dijkstra stated:

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While the Dutch business is moving ahead in crypto trading, even the nation’s regulators are conscious of this move.
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Published at Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:51:49 +0000

Amsterdam-based speed dealer Flow Traders NV co-CEO Dennis Dijkstra informed Bloomberg Thursday that his firm had been expanding its trading products to exchange-traded notes (ETNs) according to bitcoin along with ether.