Dispatch #6 shares excerpts of our thoughts on the SEC vs. Coinbase lawsuit, and its implications for the broader ecosystem, from a letter to investors of the RockDen Digital Assets Fund last week. The document was finalized on June 16th, and some of the charts will be dated as a result. The Bitcoin price is […]
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Bitcoin is Coming to Retirement Plans
Bitcoin is coming to 401(k) retirement plans as Fidelity hopes to offer access to the 23,000 plans it administers. This move by the largest plan administrator, with $2.7tn in plan assets, should drive long-term bitcoin adoption. It will not, however, change the bear market that is currently underway in many assets. The pain in crypto […]
52% of Institutional Investors Own Crypto
52% of institutional investors own crypto assets, according to Fidelity’s 2021 Digital Asset Study, a robust survey of 1,100 global institutions. 71% of Asian institutions in the sample have already allocated to crypto, 56% in Europe and only 33% in the US. The Dispatch is not surprised that US institutions’ adoption trails offshore peers because […]
Square + Ark bitcoin energy study, Kanye’s $1.8m sneakers, Tesla sells Bitcoin, Timmer’s turns cautious & no signs of Bitcoin peak in on-chain data
Dispatch #13 -2021 April 30th, 2021 The top story this week is the Square + Ark Invest’s view on the bitcoin network’s potential role in the global transition to renewable energy. The Dispatch is not entirely sold on this rose-tinted view, but since it’s a Bitcoin-leaning weekly, this story gets the lead! However, there are […]
Fidelity Bitcoin pricing model
Dispatch #12 -2021 April 23rd, 2021 The leading story this week is the Bitcoin pricing model published by Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer. This study incorporates the exponential demand curve with the already well understood exponential supply decline. He uses the mobile phone adoption curve to model how the Bitcoin price may evolve over the long term. […]