It’s now possible to invest in bitcoin on Australia’s largest stock exchange. Is the currency going mainstream?

  • Written by: Marta Khomyn, Lecturer, University of Adelaide
It’s now possible to invest in bitcoin on Australia’s largest stock exchange. Is the currency going mainstream?Jonathan Borba/Pexels

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has just seen the listing of its first bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund – “ETF” for short.

Issued by investment management firm VanEck, the new investment product is trading under the ticker symbol “VBTC”.

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