i don't really think investors are waiting for ETF and SEC anymore. we have had the same story a lot of times, more than enough for us to give up on waiting on them before investing.
May be institutional investors prefer those rulings to invest heavily in bitcoin, till now i am not sure when and what exactly triggers a huge rally rather than seeing the market goes high and huge investments coming in, just a mere spectator when the rally begins and for the market to rise again we need a lot of institutional investment to see the old all time high valuation.
I like this news, if this is true. If US will recognize bitcoin as one of the currencies to deal with and no taxes on top of that, that would really be great for crypto lovers. There would be more demand as people will find out the benefits of using crypto. Other countries might follow through in this development.
That is a great dream to have to have a tax free bitcoin market.
The fact is that no one nor any government need to reassure that bitcoin is a currency, it depends on the investor or the user about how you see bitcoin, as a investment platform hoping for big returns in the future or to use just a currency for trade and commerce, the later takes a lot of time to get implemented as everyone is looking for profits rather than seeing it as a currency.