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Canada listed the world's first spot bitcoin ETF in February 2021, years before the United States, and the Toronto Stock Exchange now carries several. For a Canadian the question is rarely whether an ETF exists; it is whether the ETF in a TFSA beats coins in a wallet you control, and what each costs. This page gathers the comparison, the tax angle and the history.
Fees, custodians and assets under management change; every figure in the coverage carries the fund's own published date.
Six TSX-listed spot bitcoin ETFs, their published fees, who holds the coins, what the CRA lets into a TFSA, and where the ETF route stops and self-custody starts.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) recently published Joint Canadian Securities Administrators/Investment Industry…
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