Harvard University’s endowment has been quietly and massively increasing its Bitcoin holdings. 

The university bought more than 6.8 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) as of September 30. The investment is valued at $442.8 million.

This marks a 257% increase from Harvard’s previous holding of 1.9 million shares, worth $116.6 million. The move makes IBIT Harvard’s largest publicly disclosed position. It is also the biggest single-quarter increase in its holdings, according the the filing. 

Harvard Management Company runs the university’s $57 billion endowment. The Bitcoin ETF now represents just under 1% of total endowment…

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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) announced it will begin offering Bitcoin Continuous Futures (PBT) on its Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) starting December 15, pending regulatory approval.

Ethereum Continuous Futures will also be offered. Earlier this year, CBOE had announced a November 10 start date but has since delayed the launch.

These new futures are designed to give traders long-term exposure to bitcoin without some of the operational headaches of traditional futures. Each contract has a 10-year expiration and a daily cash adjustment, which means positions are automatically updated every day to reflect the underlying asset’s price.

In effect, this creates a…

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Nashville, TN – November 17, 2025 – BTC Inc (the “Company”), the leading provider of Bitcoin-related news and events, today announced the appointment of Brandon Green as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. In this role, Green will oversee the Company’s strategic and operational direction, including leading the continued growth of Bitcoin Magazine and the global Bitcoin Conference series. 

As part of this leadership transition, David Bailey, Chairman and CEO of KindlyMD (NASDAQ:NAKA) and Co-Founder of BTC Inc, will step down as Chief Executive Officer of BTC Inc and continue to serve as the Company’s Chairman of the Board, supporting the advancement of BTC…

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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has reportedly finalized a sweeping plan to reclassify 105 cryptocurrencies — including bitcoin — as financial products under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, marking one of the country’s most significant regulatory shifts since the Mt. Gox era.

According to outlet Asahi, the move would subject these 105 assets to the same disclosure, reporting, and market surveillance standards used in Japan’s traditional securities markets. 

Exchanges listing the assets would have to publish detailed information on each token, including whether it has an issuer, the underlying blockchain architecture, and the level of price…

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Bitcoin price traded around $93,000 on Monday after Strategy disclosed it acquired 8,178 BTC for approximately $835.6 million over the past week, its largest buy since mid-summer.

According to an SEC filing and a Michael Saylor post on X, the purchases were made at an average price of $102,171 per bitcoin. The company now holds 649,870 BTC acquired for roughly $48.37 billion at an average cost of $74,433 per coin. Strategy said its bitcoin yield has reached 27.8% year-to-date.

At the time of the announcement, Bitcoin was trading near $94,000 and Strategy’s stock ($MSTR) was trading down 2% at $195.86 in premarket trading. 

The acquisition was funded primarily through…

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Michael Saylor’s company Strategy (MSTR) has shocked crypto markets with a major return to large-scale bitcoin accumulation. The firm purchased 8,178 BTC last week for $835.6 million, paying an average of $102,171 per coin. This marks the company’s biggest buy in months after a long stretch of smaller, incremental additions.
Most of the purchase was powered by Strategy’s newly issued preferred offering, STRE, known as Steam, which drew strong interest from European investors and raised roughly $715 million earlier this month. An additional $131.4 million came from its STRC, or Stretch, preferred series, according to a Monday filing.
Strategy now holds 649,870 BTC worth $48.37 billion at an average cost of $74,433 each. The company had avoided large common-share offerings recently due to a steep 56% drop in its stock price over the past four months. This latest move signals renewed confidence from Saylor’s team and brings fresh momentum to the pro-crypto narrative.

When it comes to pensions and retirement, we have a clear pensions adequacy issue in much of the world given that the population is living longer and many individuals have inadequate savings for a comfortable retirement. Bitcoin fixes this – in part – by offering a form of savings which can’t be debased and should hold its value into the long term. Lowering our collective time preference as a society also wouldn’t hurt, as we’d prioritise our later years more than we do so at present.

It’s sometimes remarked though that Bitcoin doesn’t solve all the problems in the world, only half of them, and there is one huge aspect Bitcoin cannot help with in terms of retirement…

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