Richest Cryptocurrency Investors

Bitcoin/Crypto 'HEADLINERS'

As of Dec 10, 2020, last updated on 12/31/2021

Read my daily ‘Richest Cryptocurrency Investors’ updates! It is a great way to catch up on Bitcoin, its history, developments, growth stages, and technology advancements. -roy avila

Popular Reasons For Entry

1. global currency
2. hedge against inflation
3. nothing better out there
4. hope for developing countries
5. unbanked
6. scarcity
7. decentralization
8. promotes the use of clean energy

Company - Institution Headliners

• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak calls Bitcoin a miracle and the future
• Mass Mutual, Roger W. Crandall $100 million
• PayPal, Dan Schulman (???)
• Square, Jack Patrick Dorsey 8,018 $380 Million
• U.S. government is one of the largest holders of confiscated bitcoin. At least $1 billion worth of digital coins.
• MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor As of 6/27/2021, we #hodl ~ 105,085 bitcoins $3 billion average price of ~$28,311
• Coinbase Brokered MicroStrategy’s $425M Bitcoin Purchase
• Twitter, Jack Dorsey $50 Million
• Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC, Ross L Stevens $200 Million
• Skybridge Bitcoin Fund Anthony Scaramucci $100 Million
• Anthony Scaramucci Investments $500 Million
• Blackrock Given Approval To Larger Mutual Funds (purchase Bitcoin futures)
• BNY Mellon, MasterCard buy-in
• Jack Dorsey partners with Jay-Z and donates 500 bitcoin $23.6 Million to set up a new endowment trust supporting Africa and India
• Jack Dorsey donates?$1 million?to cryptocurrency policy think tank Coin Center
• Grayscale $11 Billion
• Tesla 2.38 Billion, purchase in January 2021
• Fidelity Digital Assets added collateral agent capabilities to its services line, paving the way to offering Bitcoin to its customers.
• Etrade will announce that it will add cryptocurrency trading to its platform, adding it to its current offering of stocks, mutual funds, futures, options, ETFs, and more.
• Google Play, With over two billion Android users users on the planet, the adoption of Bitcoin and crypto by Google Pay would be the equivalent of a tape-measure home run.
• Bitcoin is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission | CFTC
• Amazon, 150 million paid Prime members, The next big shoe to drop in 2021 is the adoption crypto by Amazon. This means as both a form of payment as well as a way to buy/sell crypto (like PayPal).
• Apple Pay, The biggest piece of Bitcoin news in the first half of 2021 will be Bitcoin support for Apple Pay. With over 1 billion iPhones on the planet, Apple does not want to be late to the Bitcoin and crypto party and they will need to move soon.
• Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful - estimated $6 million, 180 Bitcoins at an average $38,000
• State Street Would Be the Fund Administrator for VanEck’s Pending Bitcoin ETF
• Marathon Digital $228 Million
• Real Vision's own Treasury account
• PayPal has 377 million digital wallets (03/11/2021)
• 7 million Indian investors who hold more than $1 billion in digital assets
• Mastercard is bringing crypto onto its network February 2021
• Visa CEO: We’ll let you spend crypto at 70 million merchants March 2021
• Morgan Stanley becomes the first big U.S. bank to offer its wealthy clients access to 3 major bitcoin funds (Gemini, Coinbase) March 2021
• Dawn Fitzpatrick hedge fund manager and as the Chief Investment Officer at Soros Fund Management
• KiwiSaver Growth Strategy fund, part of New Zealand’s retirement savings program, has allocated 5% bitcoin. 10/20 $12 million
• NYDIG is a leading technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin
• PayPal will allow users to checkout with crypto at any of its?29 million online merchants. The service will automatically convert bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC) to U.S. dollars
• Bitcoin is now larger than the Canadian Dollar (M1)
• Bitcoin An Interesting Marketing Tool
• Investments giant?BlackRock is trading bitcoin futures
• Sovereign Wealth Funds are Looking to Buy Bitcoin
• Investment Institutions: Will use of Fidelity's bitcoin price index and fidelity digital assets would be the custodian.

1. Van Eck Global Investment
2. WisdomTree Investments Fund
3. Fidelity
4. NYDIG Asset Management is the Bitcoin subsidiary of Stone Ridge
5. Valkyrie Equities Corporation
6. First Trust Advisors
7. SkyBridge Capital, The Hedge Fund

• BTC mining firm Argo Blockchain purchases 320 acres of land in Texas for a 200MW data center
• PayPal purchases digital asset security firm Curv.
• JPMorgan regulatory filings reveal a 'basket' product tied to crypto-linked public companies
• Norwegian oil billionaire Kjell Rokee purchases $58M worth of BTC
• WisdomTree files for a BTC ETF, crypto asset manager CoinShares goes public in Sweden
• Meitu buys another $49M worth of ETH and BTC
• Howard Marks changes his mind on BTC.
• Brazil becomes the first Latin American country to get its first BTC ETF,
• Fed's Powell says BTC is more of a substitute for gold than the U.S. dollar
• Visa announces a pilot with Crypto.com to settle USDC on its network
• SEC Chairman Jay Clayton joins One River Asset Management's advisory board.
• Bitcoin mining firm Riot Blockchain to acquire rival Whinstone for $651 million https://youtu.be/JBlM5CLfDf8
• Charles Schwab CEO Walter Bettinger said the financial services giant is weighing an entry into providing crypto services
• First 3 Canada ETFs: Galaxy Digital GLXY), ETF (FX HEDGED)?(BTCC)?(BTCC.B) (BTCC.U), and Evolve ETHR
• Gemini Credit Card to Launch With Mastercard as Network Partner
• U.S. Bank is finalizing cryptocurrency custody services.
• South Korean-Japanese video game publisher, Nexon, said it bought?$100 million in bitcoin?using corporate reserves.
• Brevan Howard’s Hedge Fund to Start Buying Cryptocurrencies
• Ray Dalio Calls Bitcoin 'One Hell of an Invention'- Founder World's Largest Hedge Fund Bridgewater Has Crypto Plans
• Daniel Loeb’s $17B Hedge Fund Is Keeping Crypto With Coinbase – And Maybe Even Staking It
• Morgan Stanley filed to offer BTC exposure in institutional funds.
• JPMorgan, Mastercard, & UBS to build DeFi infrastructure.
• Bill Miller says his bitcoin holdings are now worth more than his Amazon position.
• Jim Cramer sells some bitcoin and pays off a home mortgage
• MicroStrategy announces that it’ll pay its non-employee directors in BTC.
• Nexon Joins Tesla in Bitcoin Bet With $100 Million Purchase
• Bitcoin ETF: SEC Decision In June Is The Next Upside Catalyst
• PayPal has held exploratory talks about launching a stablecoin: sources
• Galaxy Digital to acquire digital assets infrastructure provider BitGo for $1.2 billion in cash and stock
• 130 million people hold crypto
• Bitcoin is coming to hundreds of U.S. banks this year, says crypto custody firm NYDIG
• Goldman Sachs unveils new cryptocurrency trading team in employee memo.
• Peter Thiel-backed blockchain platform just invested $10 billion in a new crypto exchange
• Mike Novogratz and Peter Thiel, stake from Block. One of $100 million in cash, around $9 billion in bitcoin and just under $200 million in EOS
• Palantir Technologies plans to?accept bitcoin payments, CFO Dave Glazer said on Tuesday’s earnings call.?
• Wise Origin, a fund affiliated with investment giant Fidelity’s?bitcoin ETF application,?has taken a step forward through the regulatory red tape.?
• Hungarian government reduces tax on crypto profits from 30.5% to 15%. This is a huge win! (article is in Hungarian)
• 46 Million Americans Now Own Bitcoin, as Crypto Goes Mainstream
• Hong Kong to restrict crypto exchanges to professional investors
• China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
• China calls for crackdown on bitcoin mining, Bitcoin falls
• U.S. SEC chair says more investor protection needed on crypto exchanges
• Bank of America joins Paxos's blockchain-based settlement network for equities
• Ripple is behind the now-pervasive anti-Bitcoin narrative, excessive usage of electricity.
• Coinbase hires former Goldman Sachs executive as chief policy officer
• Ray Dalio confirms BTC holdings, says 'Bitcoin's greatest risk is its success'
• Digital asset hedge fund One River files with SEC to create a carbon-neutral bitcoin ETF
• Goldman Sachs Endorses Bitcoin As New Asset Class
• Carl Icahn on Cryptos: 'There Could Be Something to It
• Jack Dorsey's Square and Cathie Wood's Ark suggest bitcoin mining encourages the adoption of renewable energy and isn't environmentally-damaging
• RBI clears air on cryptocurrency trading, asks banks to perform customer due diligence
• RBI circular Customer Due Diligence for transactions in Virtual Currencies (VC)
• Top White House tech critic Tim Wu holds more than $1M in Bitcoin
• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Invested $500 Million Into Digital Bank Nubank That Plans To Offer A Bitcoin ETF To Its Clients
• El Salvador becomes 1st nation to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender after a supermajority?
• Instant international transactions with @ln_strike Strike
• Full stack decentralized finance with @SovrynBTC Sovryn | DeFi for Bitcoin
• Bitcoin-backed stablecoins with @moneyonchainok MoneyOnChain
• Bitcoin payment coming next to eBay?
• El Salvador Made #Bitcoin? Legal Tender
• China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity
• China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
• Publicly-listed Chinese mining firm has already sent bitcoin miners to Kazakhstan
• Dubai exchange gets its first crypto listing, and prices jump
• Tanzania’s President Urges Central Bank to Prepare for Crypto
• Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third richest man in Mexico, said that he wants his bank to be the first one in Mexico to accept Bitcoin.
• The First Bank In Mexico Banco Azteca Is About to Start Accepting Bitcoin
• Iran’s Ministry of Industry has?granted permission?for 30 crypto mining farms to start operating.?
• Crypto investments in India have?exploded?this year
• Tom Brady & Gisele Bundchen become part-owners of U.S. Exchange FTX
• World's biggest interdealer broker TP ICAP to launch crypto trading platform with Fidelity Digital?Assets, Zodia Custody and Flow Traders
• NYDIG will?bring crypto purchases to 650 banks?and credit unions through a tie-up with enterprise payments provider NCR.?
• Paraguay becomes second country to propose a bill to make Bitcoin legal tender
• JPMorgan predicts bitcoin price of $25,000 due to Grayscale sell-off
• Swarm Markets launches what it claims is the world’s first regulated by BaFin, the German regulator DeFi platform
• London-based hedge fund Marshall Wace?plans to expand involvement?in the digital asset sector. With $55 billion in AUM
• International auction house Sotheby’s will accept payment in Bitcoin?
• Allied Payment Network Partners With NYDIG To Put Bitcoin On Their Balance Sheet
• Marshall Wace to make foray into investing in crypto sector
• Goldman Sachs ramps up bitcoin trading in new partnership with Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital
• Standard Chartered, Fidelity, TP ICAP to Launch Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
• U.S. Congressman Barry Moore has apparently been investing in crypto for a while now.
• Politicians on both sides are pro-digital currencies: Rep. Thomas Massie, Governor Jared Polis, Andrew Yang, Rep. Ted Budd, Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, Rep. Darren Soto, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, Rep.?Tom Emmer, Senate Candidate?Cynthia Lummis, Rep. Warren Davidson, Rep. Patrick McHenry
• 101.38-carat diamond?was?sold at Sotheby's?for HK$95.1 million ($12.3 million) in?cryptocurrency
• Wells Fargo is closing your personal line of credit account. Here's what happens next
• Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Calls Bitcoin 'Miracle', Better Than Gold
• Clients can choose one of seven nations to become citizens of Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Nevis, Portugal, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, and Vanuatu
• Chinese bitcoin miner BIT Mining raises $50 million to move overseas
• Grayscale links up with banking giant BNY Mellon to prep for bitcoin ETF
• Mark Zuckerberg named his goat 'Bitcoin'?
• Bank of America Creates Team Dedicated to Researching Crypto
• After scoring $200 million from SoftBank, Mercado Bitcoin wants to quicken the growth of Latin America’s crypto market
• BlackRock CEO says crypto isn't part of clients' long-term strategies
• Elon Musk says SpaceX owns Bitcoin and he owns Ethereum in Jack Dorsey talk
• Goldman Sachs reports nearly half of its rich family office clients want to get into crypto
• JP Morgan greenlights wealth management advisors to take crypto fund order
• JPMorgan bitcoin fund could roll out as soon as this summer
• Amazon Cryptocurrency Product Lead Job Posting Sparks Bitcoin Price Surge
• 1,6000 tokens have a market value over $1 million and 70-80 over a billion dollars -SEC Gary Gensler
• GoldenTree adds BTC to its balance sheet
• French asset manager Melanion Capital won regulatory approval to?launch?an ETF tracking the price of bitcoin for investors across the European Union
• Dubai’s first-of-its-kind Bitcoin Fund listing
• Bank of Israel’s trial of a digital Shekel
• Change to Crypto Provision in Infrastructure Bill Blocked
• AMC will let customers pay with Bitcoin by end of 2021
• Indian crypto exchange becomes unicorn after $90M funding?
• Coinbase says ten of the top 100 hedge funds by AUM are among its clientele
• A worthy post, Polygon acquires Hermez?is a $250M deal that includes the first-ever token 'merger.'?
• Institutional Capital Flows into Grayscale’s Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts
• $400B Wealth Manager Neuberger Berman Green-Lights Bitcoin Investments
• NBA Blockchain Billionaires: Cuban, Tsai and Leonsis to Lead Owners Study Group.?
• Second-largest U.S. mortgage lender will accept payment in bitcoin
• Tesla discloses 10Q Digital Assets 42k Bitcoin approx. $1.47 billion
• El Salvador's official bitcoin wallet will go live on September 7
• MicroStrategy Buys Even More Bitcoin $177 million, 108,992 Bitcoin just over $2.9 billion
• Nigeria Getting Bitcoinized
• 50 Years After Bretton Woods, the US Dollar's Throne Is In Play
• Bitcoin Firm Reveals Its Total BTC Reserves, Urges Other Crypto Exchanges To Disclose Holdings
• Bankers Issue ‘Seismic’ Warning: Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, Cardano And XRP Could Replace The Dollar
• Crypto Market Price Adds Another $1 Trillion
• Cause and Effect: Will the Bitcoin Price Drop If The Stock Market Crashes?
• 'Big Short' Fund Manager Warns of 'Mother of ALL Crashes ' in Crypto
• Blockchain advocates in US Congress bring back Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act
• Billionaire Simon Nixon, Seek Capital...Seeks Bitcoin Exposure
• Fundstrat's Tom Lee: Wall of worry is healthy, Bitcoin has performed admirably
• ARK Invest CEO: Bitcoin In “Capitulation Phase”
• $1BN Bitcoin Sent For Under $10 - Future Of Money
• World’s largest Bitcoin wallet transfers funds of $1bn
• Donald Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam against the dollar'
• SIMON partners, Company Serving 100,000 Wealth Managers Can Now Invest IN Bitcoin Via NYDIG Partnership
• Morgan Stanley?Loads Up on $240M in Grayscale Bitcoin Shares
• Bitcoin Becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador
• El Salvador Legalizes Bitcoin Amidst a Rocky Rollout
• Bitcoin Hash Rate Continues to Recover
• Bitcoin’s hash rate?has recovered by 50%
• El Salvador to Establish Bitcoin Tax Exemptions for Foreign Investors
• Tony Greer Going Long Bitcoin
• Crypto trading firm Radkl to be backed by billionaire Steven Cohen
• Kraken app using?Apple Pay?and?Google Pay!
• Bitcoin mining firm?Genesis Digital Assets raises $431M?led by Paradigm
• Investors in the round included NYDIG, Stoneridge, FTX, Ribbit, Electric Capital, Skybridge, and Kingsway Capital
• Once a denier, now a player in the Bitcoin market.
• Compass Mining launches 'at-home' bitcoin mining service
• At-home GPU crypto mining is surging in China — for now
• Powell Says Fed Has 'No Intention' to Ban Cryptocurrencies
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk says U.S. government should avoid regulating crypto
• El Salvador Legalizes Bitcoin Amidst a Rocky Rollout
• El Salvador has mined its?first bitcoin using volcanic energy
• Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power as Environmental Criticism Mounts
• CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, TradingView now blocked in China
• Hash Rate Rebounds as China Ban Makes for a Greener Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Tops $50000 as BofA Says Crypto 'Too Large to Ignore'
• Bitcoin set to become legal payment in Brazil
• Brazil’s Federal Deputy Aureo Ribeiro has revealed buy with Bitcoin
• Bitcoin has no value and authorities will soon 'regulate the hell out of it,' says JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon
• US Bank launches bitcoin custody service as institutions race to cater to crypto demand
• Colombia Could Use Waterfalls to Produce Bitcoin, Not Cocaine: Senator Petro
• Venezuela just revamped its currency, but it won't stop people seeking digital alternatives
• Jeremy Siegel warns Inflation is going to be a much bigger problem than the Fed believes
• Bill Miller doubling down
• SEC Chief Says the U.S. Won't Ban Cryptocurrencies
• Crypto Chartbook: Bitcoin Is An Equal Wealth Preserver To Gold
• How Bitcoin Is the Answer to US Economic Sanctions for Nations
• Someone smash bought $1.6 billion worth of BTC in 5 minutes
• George Soros' family office owns bitcoin, confirms CEO Fitzpatric
• 62% of institutions to start investing in crypto within a year: Survey
• Bank of America announces cryptocurrency research department
• First they make fun of us, then the warn us, then they join us
• Google has partnered with Bakkt to provide #Bitcoin payment solutions.
• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Bitcoin: "How do you know it ends at 21 million?
• Bank of England leader calls crypto regulation a 'matter of urgency' for financial stability
• Vladimir Putin: "Cryptocurrencies Have A Right To Exist And Can Be Used For Settlements"
• Canadian city becomes first to hear the building through bitcoin mining
• India has more than 10 crore crypto owners now, highest in the world
• Third-Largest Bitcoin Whale Sold at $56K and Bought Back at $57K a Day Later
• The Biggest Bitcoin Development You Should Know About Is Strike
• Crypto speculators rush to futures market ahead of SEC decision on bitcoin ETF - WSJ
• Funds Trading in Bitcoin Futures – Investor Bulletin
• https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_fundstrading
• US Claims Bitcoin Mining Crown Following China Crackdown
• Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board
• ETF from ProShares, NYSE ‘BITO,’ October Tuesday 2021
• New York joins crackdown on crypto lending, seemingly targeting Nexo and Celsius
• New York AG orders two unregistered crypto lenders to shut down
• Tom Lee says the new bitcoin futures ETF could drive the cryptocurrency well over $100,000
• The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
• MicroStrategy's New Blockchain Tools May Push Up The Stock By 35%
• SEC Chair Gary Gensler acknowledged futures-based BTC ETFs
• Several additional futures-based BTC ETFs are expected to launch by the end of October
• More than 24 million shares of BITO (worth nearly $1 billion) traded on Tuesday 10/19/2021
• Bitcoin price flash crashes to $8,200 on Binance.US in a possible trading mishap
• Bitcoin Is Back Near Record Highs, and a Houston Pension Plan Dives In
• Houston's $5 billion firefighter retirement fund buys $25 million worth of bitcoin and Ethereum
• Houston Pension Buys Crypto, an Asset ‘We Could Not Ignore’
• Clients Crypto Curious - Cowen & Co, Jeffrey Solomon
• Cowen CEO Expects Institutions to Adopt Crypto in Coming Years
• Cowen CEO Solomon on Talent Wars, Demand for Cryptos
• Ethereum Is Now the Primary Collateral for Decentralized Stablecoin DAI (11/1/21)
• Australia's CBA offers crypto trading, breaks ranks with industry
• STAR Bank Launches NYDIG Bitcoin Services Via Alkami Platform
• US Treasury Releases Stablecoin Report Calling for Legislation
• US Lawmakers Call on SEC to Approve a Spot Bitcoin ETF
• Eric Adams Aims to make New York a Crypto-Friendly City
• Miami’s Mayor Says He’ll Take His Next Paycheck in Bitcoin
• China’s escalated crypto mining crackdown sparks a new round of cat and mouse play
• Zimbabwe government reportedly consulting private sector on legalizing Bitcoin
• Apple’s Tim Cook Says He Owns Cryptocurrency, Calls It ‘Reasonable’
• Tim Cook says he owns cryptocurrency — but don't expect it at Apple any time soon
• Bitwise Withdraws Bitcoin Futures ETF Filing, Citing Cost, Complexity
• Miami to Give 'Bitcoin Yield' From MiamiCoin to Its Citizens
• SEC denies VanEck’s physical bitcoin ETF
• VanEck to Launch Bitcoin Futures ETF ‘XBTF’ Next Week After SEC Rejects Spot Offering XBTF
• Blockchain Association Raises $4M to Grow Its Presence on Capitol Hill
• Ted Cruz seeks repeal of Biden infrastructure bill's crypto broker definition
• Fidelity Launches Canada’s First Institutional Bitcoin Custody Service
• Crypto can ‘destabilize nations’ and ‘undermine’ U.S. dollar dominance, Hillary Clinton says
• El Salvador Plans Tokenized Bitcoin Bonds and Tax-Free ‘Bitcoin City’
• El Salvador plans 'Bitcoin City,' powered by crypto bonds and volcano
• El Salvador is planning a volcano-powered “Bitcoin City,” but its moves could be economically implosive
• Bitcoin whales plan to buy BTC higher as fresh Mt. Gox payouts add to market fear
• President Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill Containing Crypto Broker Reporting Requirement Into Law
• Bank of America Sees Stablecoin Regulation as Catalyst to Mass Adoption
• Bitcoin trades at over 3% discount in India after government lists a crypto bill in Parliament for discussion
• Two Bitcoin funds launched in Singapore by MAS-regulated fund manager
• MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor As of 11/30/2021, we #hodl ~ 121,044?bitcoins $3.57B average price of ~$29,534
• Crypto industry accounts for a majority of campaign donations to the Senate’s leading Bitcoin advocate
• Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks exploring #bitcoin-backed loans
• India will not ban bitcoin - rather regulate
• Crypto: India may tighten rules, not impose an outright ban
• India: cabinet changed the name of cryptocurrencies and they call them crypto asset
• New York mayor will take his first three paychecks in bitcoin
• Citigroup alum Matt Huang launching a 1.5 billion crypto fund
• FTX lightspeed lead 21 million dollar fundraise in gaming studio fairway
• Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang joins the board of Stripe
• Comprehensive bipartisan bill is introduced in-house to fix current infrastructure bills crypto tax provision
• Fidelity to Launch Spot Bitcoin ETF In Canada
• Wall Street Banks Exploring Bitcoin-Backed Loans
• El Salvador's President Tells Peter Schiff Benefit of Switching Gold Reserves to Bitcoin
• MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 1,434 BTC for ~$82.4m in cash at an avg. ~$57,477 per #bitcoin. As of 12/9/21 ~122,478 BTC acquired for ~$3.66b at an avg. ~$29,861 per BTC.
• Grayscale Corners SEC On Converting Bitcoin Trust To ETF, Sets Up 2022 Crypto Catalyst
• Hedge Fund Veteran Citrone Is the Latest to Profit From Bitcoin Bets
• German savings banks want to enable Bitcoin for 50M clients
• Bitcoin Broker NYDIG raises $1B, valued at $7B
• SEBA Bank has launched regulated digital token backed by physical gold and exchangeable for delivery.
• SEC punts on Bitwise and Grayscale bitcoin ETF proposals
• $2.7 billion New Jersey community bank to let clients to buy, sell and hold #Bitcoin
• Japan’s Taxes on Crypto Firms Are Leading Some to Leave the Country
• A Mexican billionaire encourages Twitter followers to invest in Bitcoin.
• Bitcoin Beach wallet creator Galoy aims to replicate El Salvador project.
• Trading volume for bitcoin and ether options grew 443% in 2021.
• Abu Dhabi Ramps Up Effort to Become Middle East’s Crypto Hub
• MicroStrategy purchased an additional 1,914 BTCs for $94.2 million in cash at an avg. $49,229 As of 12/29/21 124,391 bitcoins, $3.75 billion at an avg. $30,159 p/btc

Once a denier, now a player in the Bitcoin market.

• CoinDCX?has become the first Indian cryptocurrency exchange to enter the unicorn club with a $90-million (Rs 668-crore) series-C funding round. The fund-raise was led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's B Capital.?

TONE DEAF:?Democratic congressman Bill Foster of Illinois said?crypto needs “a backdoor.”?The?blockchain caucus?co-chairman said a trusted third party should be able to reverse transactions with a skeleton key, until the industry can deal with crypto-ransomware attacks.?

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marathon Patent Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) ("Marathon" or "Company"), one of the largest enterprise Bitcoin self-mining companies in North America, today announced that it has purchased 4,812.66 BTC in an aggregate purchase price of $150 million. As a result, the Company has strengthened its position as one of the only Nasdaq-listed, pure-play investment options for individuals and institutions seeking exposure to Bitcoin.

Richest Investors

MicroStrategy - Michael Saylor As of 6/27/2021, we #hodl ~ 105,085 bitcoins $3 billion average price of ~$28,311

Tesla - Elon Musk, 2.38 Billion, purchase in January 2021

Anthony Scaramucci Investments - Bitcoin is a monetary network now fully robustly scaling pursuant to Metcalfe's law. - Metcalfe's law states that the effect of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.

'Bitcoin Realist you don't have to be an evangelist to see way more demand than supply. Warren Buffett called it Rat Poison, but his good friend Bill Miller his junior says it may be rat poison but the rat may actually be fiat currency.'

The Master-Key to Riches: An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation?Paperback – January 15, 2019 by?Napoleon Hill?

Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin mastermind) - is the shadowy figure sitting at the heart of Bitcoin, which itself still confounds so many.?After inventing Bitcoin?with a 2008 white paper describing a software tied to digital currency, Nakamoto retreated from public life. People aren’t even sure if that is his (or her) real name. This is the pseudonym used by the person who created bitcoin.? Chris Larsen made his crypto fortune, with a net worth of around $7.5bn to $8bn, harnessing cryptocurrencies for use by the major banks. According to Satoshi Nakamoto’s early mining, the number of bitcoins he currently owns is estimated to be around 1.1 million. If one bitcoin is worth $20,000 today, it is worth about $22 billion. But Satoshi Nakamoto has never used most of his bitcoins, nor converted them into real-world currencies, nor used them for any other purpose. If he sells all bitcoins, the value of bitcoins may plummet in an instant.

Bulgaria is currently sitting on one of the world’s largest bitcoin assets. In May 2017, Bulgarian law enforcement agencies cracked down on organized crime and confiscated 213,519 bitcoins, enough to pay off a quarter of the country’s national debt. Bulgaria is currently sitting on one of the world’s largest bitcoin assets. In May 2017, Bulgarian law enforcement agencies cracked down on organized crime and confiscated 213,519 bitcoins, enough to pay off a quarter of the country’s national debt. According to the Bulgarian authorities, these criminals used their technology to avoid taxation. By June 2018, the value of virtual currency will exceed US$1.2 billion. The Bulgarian government declined to comment on the status of gold coins.

BitFinex - There are 163,133.38 bitcoins in the wallet of the encrypted bitcoin exchange Bitfinex, which is one of the largest bitcoin wallets in the world. There are 163,133.38 bitcoins in the wallet of the encrypted bitcoin exchange Bitfinex, which is one of the largest bitcoin wallets in the world. It is said that these bitcoins are placed in a cold wallet to protect them from cyber attacks.

Uncle Sam, FBI - Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that Bitcoin, a software-based currency that’s supposed to be free of traditional currency restrictions, has already provided a lucrative payout for the federal government. As noted above, the FBI seized 144,000 Bitcoins while shutting down the Silk Road marketplace in 2013, which back then made it the owner of the?biggest Bitcoin wallet?(though not necessarily the entity with the most Bitcoins, as they can be spread across many wallets). The FBI is one of the largest well-known holders of Bitcoin. In September 2013, they took the notorious “dark web drug bazaar” Silk Road and confiscated 144,000 bitcoins owned by the website operator. The FBI is one of the largest well-known holders of Bitcoin. In September 2013, they took the notorious “dark web drug bazaar” Silk Road and confiscated 144,000 bitcoins owned by the website operator. It is said that since the launch of the “Silk Road” website in 2011, the number of bitcoins on the website has reached 9.5 million bitcoins. Although the FBI sold a large number of bitcoins they held, and even all bitcoins, it is worth mentioning that they made a fortune by selling bitcoins. Most of the confiscated bitcoins were sold to Barry Silbert.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss - The former Olympic Games’ rowers famously sued Mark Zuckerberg. Parlayed the millions they earned?after settling their Facebook lawsuit?into cryptocurrencies and became the first billionaires from a late-2017 surge in Bitcoin prices. The twins bought 1.5 million Bitcoins with 11 million U.S. dollars of the 65 million U.S. dollars in compensation received from a legal dispute with Zuckerberg. At the time, the transaction price of one bitcoin was $120. Since then, investment has increased by more than 20,000%. Allegedly, the twins own 1% of Bitcoin on the market. They founded Windex, funded several Bitcoin-related companies, and invested 1.5 million US dollars in BitInstant.

Garvin Andresen - Although Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto’s idea, Garvin Andresen is believed to be the creator of Bitcoin. Garvin was suspected to be Satoshi Nakamoto, but he denied it. Instead, he said that he and the anonymous cryptographer had a friendship for many years. The real Satoshi Nakamoto chose him as his successor at the end of 2010. Garvin became the lead developer of the open source code that determines how Bitcoin works and whether Bitcoin can survive. The Bitcoin Foundation paid more than $200,000 worth of Bitcoin for his contribution. He has fulfilled it many times.

Roger Waugh - The?Chief Executive Officer?and founder of Digital Currency Group. Also known as Bitcoin Jesus, he was one of the first Bitcoin billionaires and was said to hold at least 100,000 Bitcoins. The famous libertarian dropped out of college to focus on his Bitcoin-related projects. Unlike other billionaires, he spends his cash on private islands and airplanes.?Roger Waugh?’s dream is to establish his own liberal country. In 2014, he renounced his American citizenship and settled permanently on a small island in the Caribbean.

Barry Silbert - Silbert is a venture capitalist and founder of a digital currency group. He is an early adopter of Bitcoin. Allegedly, in 2014, he won 48,000 bitcoins at an auction held by the US Federal Agency for Law Enforcement.

Charlie Shrem (Bitcoin early adopter) - Shrem is more infamous than famous. The entrepreneur got in?on the early days of Bitcoin?and was a member of the Bitcoin Foundation, which was supposed to protect the use of Bitcoin but has seen several of its leaders?under criminal investigation. Undoubtedly one of the most controversial Bitcoin millionaires. In the early days of cryptocurrency, he invested a lot of Bitcoin. Although he did not disclose how many bitcoins he owns, he reportedly bought back thousands of bitcoins when the bitcoins were worth a few hundred dollars.

Tony Gallippi - The business giant Tony Gallippi is also considered one of the Bitcoin holders. It is the smart group behind BitPay, which is one of the most popular Bitcoin payment service providers in the world.

Joseph Lubin - One of the Canadian founders of blockchain platform Ethereum, Lubin is also the power behind ConsenSys

Matthew Roszak - Rosnak claimed that he was the first person to bestow bitcoins on Richard Branson and Bill Clinton.?

Anthony Diiorio - One of Ethereum’s founders, Anthony Diiorio has been a champion of the cryptocurrency movement

Brian Armstrong - If it’s true that the real profiteers in the Gold Rush were the people who made the pickaxes and shovels, so it may well prove for cryptos?

Brock Pierce - Former child actor Brock Pierce founded venture capital firm Blockchain Capital (BCC) with Bart and Bradford Stephens in 2013

Tim Draper - (billionaire venture capitalist) Draper - a venture capitalist worth billions thanks in part to his early investment in Skype, made headlines for his purchase of 30,000 Bitcoins in 2014 from that same government auction.

Blythe Masters - is a former Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:?JPM)

Dan Morehead is the founder of Pantera Capital, the world’s first investment focused exclusively on?cryptocurrencies.?

Michael Novogratz - has invested approximately 30 percent of his fortune in cryptocurrencies.?

20 Institutional Bitcoin Investors Revealed (reach out to me)

There are more than 20 institutions, including two prominent fund companies, that owned bitcoin via Grayscale's trust as of June 30, 2020.

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