Bitcoin - Institutional Investments in 2020 and beyond

[so98nn]

These institutions are the backbone of crypto space now. I believe more or less in PayPal to be honest because they are the spark for everyone and elon musk is real hero when I see bitcoin in the first place. He may not show up his true investments into bitcoin but he has put up so much money into it one can not believe it. Institutional investment comes from the share holders of that company which means we are securing large portion of money into bitcoin market and thus can assure bitcoin won’t fall unless these people take out their large amount of money out of it. This anyways impossible in the first place since they are long term holders too.

You forgot about grayscale too since they hold huge portion of btc too.

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[casperBGD]

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You forgot about grayscale too since they hold huge portion of btc too.

I know about Grayscale, I have put them already in preamble, since they are custodian, not Investment institution (a bit different), but yeah, their position is massive, and their influence is huge in the market
which is also good, is that they will not go away soon, they are here to stay, their customers pay premium to join, and it sounds very good so far (2020 was a main year for them), they also have LTC, ETH trusts as well, and they are buying huge amounts for their clients

according to Grayscale website - they have 649,459,500 Shares, with 0.00094934 BTC/Share, which amounts to cca. 617k BTC (17k more than five days ago, when I wrote the main article)

[Shasha80]

With the number of institutions investing in Bitcoin, the price of Bitcoin is increasing. This is very good for the development of Bitcoin,
so it is not surprising that Bitcoin finally managed to hit the ATH price above $ 40,000. Of all the institutions investing in Bitcoin,
perhaps the most influential thing was when Paypal decided to invest in Bitcoin and gave access to US users can buy BTC. So since
November 2020 the Bitcoin price has increased dramatically until early January 2021. I hope that in 2021 there will be more institutions
investing in Bitcoin, so that the Bitcoin price can rise even higher.

[AmoreJaz]

With the number of institutions investing in Bitcoin, the price of Bitcoin is increasing. This is very good for the development of Bitcoin,
so it is not surprising that Bitcoin finally managed to hit the ATH price above $ 40,000. Of all the institutions investing in Bitcoin,
perhaps the most influential thing was when Paypal decided to invest in Bitcoin and gave access to US users can buy BTC. So since
November 2020 the Bitcoin price has increased dramatically until early January 2021. I hope that in 2021 there will be more institutions
investing in Bitcoin, so that the Bitcoin price can rise even higher.

however, take note that how PayPal is introducing bitcoin or crypto to their users is very different. but in any case, it is already a good intro to their users about crypto. and once they realised that there's more in store for them beyond PayPal, they will be strong users of crypto outside of their jurisdiction. but it's true, the launch of crypto in PayPal drives further adoption. after all, they have millions of users already.
and with regards to financial institutions, it seems that they are still buying. although we saw the drop to about 30k, and yet we are up again. seems that we will not drop below 30k this time. let's see.

[verita1]

Every time the price of bitcoin goes down I think that some firm is buying.
Bitcoin is at the best moment, now Bitcoin holders think of a long-term investment and more institutions are adopting bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.

The positive in this situation is that the crypto market is optimistic and all the other coins are showing their progress.

It is appropriate to think of bitcoin users who need user-friendly dapps so that they can manage their bitcoin comfortably, easily, safely, quickly and with low fees.

[TheGreatPython]

Institutional investment comes from the share holders of that company which means we are securing large portion of money into bitcoin market and thus can assure bitcoin won’t fall unless these people take out their large amount of money out of it. This anyways impossible in the first place since they are long term holders too.

Are you serious, what do you mean by it is impossible? Even if they are long term investors, long term is not a life time so these people can still pull their money out from the market at anytime and it will affect the market.

Unless what you should say is that by that time more and more individual/retail investors would have joined and invested their money and the community will grow enough before they think of removing their money from the market. That’s the only way that the community wouldn’t feel it. But as long as these institutions holds the highest share of the market, whenever they sell, the market will be affected.

[el kaka22]

They are smarter and also richer as well which allows them to wait a lot longer. A regular person who has invested 40 thousand dollars of his own money, when he has 50 thousand dollars on his savings account, sees bitcoin going towards 32 thousand dollars and he might panic and sell his coins to get out before he losses more money, that is how people think when they do not have too much money and act emotionally with their money.

However a huge company go into bitcoin, spend tens of millions of dollars on buying bitcoin, still has hundreds of millions of dollars aside, losing few million dollars due to drop is nothing to them, it is literally just bonus money for some executives, nothing major for them which allows them to wait it out and see the price go back up again and not act emotionally during any fall. That is why they are going to get richer from crypto and they know it, and it is spreading among the big companies.

[fillippone]

They are smarter and also richer as well which allows them to wait a lot longer. A regular person who has invested 40 thousand dollars of his own money, when he has 50 thousand dollars on his savings account, sees bitcoin going towards 32 thousand dollars and he might panic and sell his coins to get out before he losses more money, that is how people think when they do not have too much money and act emotionally with their money.

However a huge company go into bitcoin, spend tens of millions of dollars on buying bitcoin, still has hundreds of millions of dollars aside, losing few million dollars due to drop is nothing to them, it is literally just bonus money for some executives, nothing major for them which allows them to wait it out and see the price go back up again and not act emotionally during any fall. That is why they are going to get richer from crypto and they know it, and it is spreading among the big companies.

Well, I do assure you many executives have a lot of pressure on them about the correctness of their choices. Actually, the short term correctness of their choices.
Do you remember when Elon Musk wanted to take TSLA private at 420? This was to focus on the long term success of his firm, without worrying too much about the quarterly reporting cycle.
I think it is not a coincidence if the first and only firm that bought BTC has been Microstrategy, where the CEO has a 70%+  voting supermajority: even if BTC dips for a quarter or two (Something cannot be ruled out) he is not risking his position.

[sana54210]

The list will consist from the investment groups and funds that published their involvement and total funds with them, without Grayscale, since that is a custodian for a large number of individual investors, which is arguably the biggest BTC holder at the moment with above 600k BTC at the moment, according to their website https://grayscale.co/bitcoin-trust/

They may not really end up with a lot more like this year, I am not expecting another half a million bitcoins sold this year and hopefully they do not corner the market completely. Think about it this way, if the huge companies have 10 million bitcoins, if satoshi and all early birds that do not sell have few million, if combined hodlers have few million, that would leave very little bitcoins to trade and that is what I think is the real trouble here, if there is a very limited amount, that would destroy the market.

Everyone thinks that if there is less supply but a lot of demand the price should go up, but when there is a lot of demand yet no supply people will start to go away due to lack of supply and find other things that does have supply. So I hope companies to keep on buying but not a lot, not millions of them, just few ten thousand bitcoin is more than enough.

[casperBGD]

https://ambcrypto.com/miami-mayor-explores-idea-to-put-1-treasury-reserves-into-bitcoin/

Miami is considering putting 1% of their treasury into BTC, which is rather another good news and institutional acceptance, and here we are talking about USA

[Coinsfera]

The list will consist from the investment groups and funds that published their involvement and total funds with them, without Grayscale, since that is a custodian for a large number of individual investors, which is arguably the biggest BTC holder at the moment with above 600k BTC at the moment, according to their website https://grayscale.co/bitcoin-trust/
May 2020 - Paul Tudor Jones
August 2020 - Microstrategy
October 2020 - Square
November 2020 - Stanley Druckenmiller
November 2020 - PayPal
December 2020 - MassMutual
December 2020 - Ruffer Investment
December 2020 - One River

It is good news that every time we see companies add Bitcoin to their portfolios. It will give Bitcoin its true value in the future if those companies hold on to their Bitcoin investments. At the same time, it is scary that all those bitcoins will be held in several hands. We can expect from Elon Musk to add some cryptocurrencies to its portfolio soon.

[aoluain]

Just reading an article from Friday about Blockfi applying to the SEC for A Bitcoin Fund
to compete with Grayscale etc.

Crypto Lender BlockFi Registers Bitcoin Trust With SEC

From the article they also mention OSPREY and VALKYRIE who have recently entered the game.

These could be something for your list?
The space is opening up because of the demand from Institutional Investors who dont want
to have to take "ownership" of their Bitcoin, just like if they buy Gold or Oil, they dont expect to
have it physically in their possesion.

Valkyrie Digital Assets Files for Bitcoin ETF

[Pito001]

Good to know that more and more Institutionals in the game. However, even more of them are shorting btc according to stats

[casperBGD]

with all the positive news, there is one that call caution on Institutional investments, namely Ruffer sold part of their holdings in BTC, since earning double in a month, and now have risk-free position, mainly the same as investment (750 million USD), although having half BTC quantity, compared to initial buying

https://decrypt.co/56437/ruffer-scores-750-million-profit-from-bitcoin-citing-immediate-fireworks

they were happy with gains, and decided to cut-down their risk, with pulling-out initial capital, easing buying pressure and increasing selling pressure in January, what do you think will the other Institutional investors, that already made money follow this example, or they will stay in for the matter?

[newwest]

Good to know that more and more Institutionals in the game. However, even more of them are shorting btc according to stats

Pandemic has helped them to think out of the box and rather than just investing in traditional assets and method they have started considering bitcoin as a good option now. This will help them to diversify and bitcoin will get the boost as now considering few institutions have purchased other would follow the same.

[Casdinyard]

Good to know that more and more Institutionals in the game. However, even more of them are shorting btc according to stats

Pandemic has helped them to think out of the box and rather than just investing in traditional assets and method they have started considering bitcoin as a good option now. This will help them to diversify and bitcoin will get the boost as now considering few institutions have purchased other would follow the same.

Not really thinking out of the box, these institutions just observed how fast this technology's popularity is spreading across different countries, and they just made use or took advantage of it, by engaging as a third party network securing taxation in every transaction by means of higher fees, compared to traditional exchangers. But it is somewhat of a win-win situation. They will benefit from "adopting" this technology, while this industry will benefit in a way that these platforms will help spreading and enlarging the trust to use cryptocurrencies. Hoping that someday, more people will benefit from the use of this technology.

[AndySt]

Good to know that more and more Institutionals in the game. However, even more of them are shorting btc according to stats

Pandemic has helped them to think out of the box and rather than just investing in traditional assets and method they have started considering bitcoin as a good option now. This will help them to diversify and bitcoin will get the boost as now considering few institutions have purchased other would follow the same.

This means that the market is mature enough to accept bitcoin as an investment asset. There are many factors here, and the most important thing is that the coming pandemic, the associated increased pumping of the money supply by the states, made more and more investors think about finding an investment object to protect against inflation. Let's hope that the wall of distrust has already been broken and bitcoin will hold this won market niche.

[jjdub7]

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I think there will be more institutional investors and mutual funds every month. Crypto is trending now. And the price will go only in one direction!

[whyrqa]

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I think there will be more institutional investors and mutual funds every month. Crypto is trending now. And the price will go only in one direction!

I have repeatedly come across information that the Chicago stock exchange is deliberately creating Ethereum futures trading, in which institutional capital is interested, as well as Bitcoin. I believe that this fact also has a very good effect on the growth and development of the cryptocurrency market.

[casperBGD]

it is probably all heard already, but Tesla reportedly bought 1,5 billion in BTC, according to their filling to SEC
https://decrypt.co/56957/elon-musks-tesla-has-invested-1-5-billion-into-bitcoin

as well, they will accept BTC payments for Tesla cars in near future

important milestone, and as said by Hirsch from eToro this could be the moment when we realized BTC goes mainstream