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

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”.
It’s not the first bitcoin ETF to launch in...