BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin’s Big Institutional Week - JPMorgan Brings Crypto to All Wealth Management Clients & More
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A stream of institutional news revives the previously stagnant narrative.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
This week, institutional involvement was revived after the past few months’ inactivity. NLW covers new evidence for institutional interest, including:
- A billionaire you can’t ignore
- JPMorgan offering crypto exposure
- Galaxy Digital’s big bank backers
Elon Musk’s revelation that SpaceX, the space exploration company that he founded, held bitcoin was joined by billionaire Thomas Peterffy’s admission that he holds some crypto, even hinting he sees “a small chance this will be a dominant currency.” On the wealth management end, JPMorgan has opened crypto exposure to all of its clients, a typically conservative set who tend to be passive in their investments. Lastly, London-based digital trading asset venue Galaxy Digital’s big bank backers continues to grow. The latest addition was BNY Mellon.
All this together points to the fact that institutions, no matter how reluctantly, see crypto as an inevitable investment that can’t be ignored.
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| 0:49.7 | So what you have here, then, is a bottom-up client demand trumping the biases of a top-down hierarchy, |
| 0:56.7 | which I think is pretty rad. |
| 0:59.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world. |
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| 1:17.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, July 23rd, and today we are talking some very interesting institutional Bitcoin and crypto news. |
| 1:27.0 | It has been a non-stop barrage of FUD for what |
| 1:30.0 | feels like months. China FUD, Tether FUD, regulatory fud, so much FUD. And I have some bad news. |
| 1:38.1 | Tomorrow's weekly recap has even more FUD around regulatory machinations. I figure that's |
| 1:43.2 | better for a Saturday when your |
| 1:44.4 | weekend's in full swing and you have more time to process. But today, well, today we have |
| 1:49.7 | something fun. As you know, there have been some meaningful questions about institutional involvement |
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