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By Gabor Gurbacs, Director, Digital Assets Strategy Cryptocurrency continues to make headlines with bitcoin and ethereum leading the way. Reaching record highs recently, bitcoin, in particular, has attracted the attention of the investment community. Will cryptocurrency maintain the same level of interest that was seen towards the end of 2020 and now into 2021? In this in-depth Q&A,  Q: How do you see bitcoin and other digital assets impacting financial services at the institutional level? A: Digital assets have primarily been a retail play. This was a situation where Main Street beat Wall S...

R.Tsubin/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. After breaching a record-high of $58,000 last Sunday, bitcoin slid to $47,000 on Friday. Despite regulatory uncertainty, three CEOs of money managers are still bullish. They explain why bitcoin is still in its early stages and set to mature into a gold-like market cap. Is bitcoin entering a bear market ?  After the digital currency slid from its record...

In order to explain bitcoin to investors, we are offering a series of blogs and podcasts. A previous blog tried to explain the developments  driving bitcoin’s rally. This blog is the first in a series that covers topics that are important to investors. For more on this topic, please listen to the  The question “what is bitcoin?” can be answered in many ways. I don’t think investors need to know how bitcoin works technically, but they need to be able to assess the opportunities and risks of investing in bitcoin. So let us examine the two biggest questions that investors care about. F...

13 hours ago, Jan van Eck said: Great stuff!  Note that 4014 seems to be oil-fired; my guess is that the original configuration was for using Bunker "C", probably 180 centistoke material.  I would be surprised if the Union Pacific can even source that oil today; those run-bys are more likely to be fuelled by rail diesel oil. the Big Boys were originally intended to pull  full consists up the grade over the Wasatch Mountains, without having to stop to couple on any helper locomotives.  But I think they ended up in passenger service for a decade, then relegated to hauls "on the flat" i...

Per Valkyrie Investments, Coinbase Custody Trust Company would be the ETF’s custodian. VanEck also resubmitted its BTC ETF application at the end of 2020. Texas-based Valkyrie Digital Assets has filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).  The firm filed this application on January 22, noting that the proposed ETF is named Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund. Per Valkyrie Investment, the parent company of Valkyrie Digital Assets, its subsidiary seeks to list its ETF on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) if the SEC approves it. According to the filing,...