Subject: SR-CboeBZX-2018-040
From: Rickey Johnson
Affiliation:

Jul. 19, 2018

To whom it may concern,

I would like to let you know that i would greatly appreciate your approval for a bitcoin etf. Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies are a fascinating new asset class. Having a bitcoin etf or other potential crypto-currency etf and/or mutual fund would allow many people to gain access to this new technology without the complexity of having to sign up for a exchange and buy them individually and then learn how to correctly store them without losing them. After all, even in my retirement portfolio i hold several stocks (individually) but i don’t have the actual certificate of the stock in my safe i just bought it through my online broker (Charles Schwab) and therefore can buy more or sell whenever i would like. This is the exact reason i’m asking you to approve a bitcoin etf and other crypto-currency etf’s and/or funds to allow people like myself to gain exposure to the new space without going through all the process of buying and storing it myself. Thank you for your time and again i would like to voice my support for your approval of the bitcoin etf. Thanks