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BlackRock har haft en privat BTC-fond i ett års tid.
BlackRock Launches Spot Bitcoin Private Trust
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/blac...-private-trust
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This story is a new development on a pro-bitcoin move taken by BlackRock earlier this August: the company’s partnership with Coinbase (COIN), one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The new service offered by this partnership was exposure to bitcoin; Coinbase’s system would be directly interfaced with BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management platform, allowing institutional clients to seamlessly trade bitcoin through the same platform used for a wide variety of other types of assets.
Intressant i sammanhanget:
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/sta...27349116985575
Citat:
Arkham has identified 948,000 BTC on the chain, worth about 25 billion Coinbase BTC reserves, making Coinbase the largest identified BTC entity at the moment, with nearly 5% of the total existing Bitcoin, about the same as Satoshi Nakamoto.
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/sta...27664398659913
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The majority of this should be client assets. This $25 billion BTC is made up of more than 36 million Coinbase BTC deposit with the largest cold wallet containing approximately 10,000 BTC. Based on recent financial data from Coinbase, Arkham believes there may be thousands of BTC yet to be marked.
BlackRock's kunder har alltså kunnat köpa BTC mer än ett år innan BlackRock's spot ETF blivit godkänd.
Har BlackRock själva köpt BTC (förutom via proxy)? Det misstänker jag starkt att de har, men det finns inga bevis för detsamma än.