💰 Morgan Stanley reveals $270 million investment in Bitcoin ETFs, making it top GBTC holder

Morgan Stanley revealed a $269.9 million investment in spot Bitcoin ETFs via Grayscale’s GBTC in its first quarter 13F disclosure. Based on Fintel data, the investment makes it one of the largest holders of GBTC, following Susquehanna International Group’s leading $1.0 billion investment. Morgan Stanley is also one of many Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) that have disclosed investments in spot Bitcoin ETFs, alongside the Royal Bank of Canada, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and UBS.

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🪙 Bitcoin ETF Flows Surge to Two-Week High as BTC Soared Beyond $66,000

Inflows for spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States soared to $303 million on May 15 amid a big jump in BTC prices. It is the highest inflow since May 3 as institutional investors pivoted back to bullish in the wake of the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data on May 15 which met expectations. Fidelity led the pack with its FBTC fund seeing $131 million in inflows for the day, its highest inflow since March 26. Bitwise’s BITB fund also had a solid day with an inflow of $86 million, a figure not beaten since March 4.

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💰 JPMorgan revises bitcoin production cost estimate to $45,000

JPMorgan has revised its central estimate of bitcoin production cost to $45,000 from the previous $42,000 projection amid a shift in bitcoin mining hashrate. This appears to be happening, albeit with some delay," JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in a report on Thursday. "The current hashrate and power consumption put our central estimate of the bitcoin production cost to around $45,000, i.e., well below current prices" of around $65,000, the analysts added.

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💰 Morgan Stanley Latest Bank to Disclose Spot Bitcoin ETF Holdings for Clients

Morgan Stanley was the owner of $269.9 million of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) as of March 31, a 13F filing showed. It is important to note that these purchases don't necessarily represent the banks' views on the direction of bitcoin's price, but instead were likely either made on behalf of the banks' wealth management clients or necessary for market making and/or ETF authorized participant duties.

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💰 Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Attracts 414 Institutional Holders — Analyst Says IBIT 'Blows Away Record'

Blackrock’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), has amassed 414 insitutional holders in less than three months, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A senior Bloomberg analyst described this achievement as “mind-boggling” and “highly rare” for new ETFs. Other recently launched ETFs have significantly fewer institutional holders.

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💰 Number of new Bitcoin wallets drops to lowest level since 2018

Six months ago, excitement around spot Bitcoin ETFs, developments in the Bitcoin ecosystem such as Ordinals, and the upcoming halving drove the average weekly number of new Bitcoin addresses to approach its highest levels since its all-time high value in December 2017. Yet six months on, just like in early 2018, the number of new addresses joining the network has cratered as the fervor around new Bitcoin projects dies down.

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💰 Bitcoin to Reach $420K by Decade's End, Says Ric Edelman

Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines, forecasts bitcoin will reach $420,000 by the decade’s end. He explained that if 1% of the world’s $738 trillion in financial assets were allocated to bitcoin, it would result in $7.4 trillion in inflows, raising bitcoin’s price to $420,000.

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💰 Bitcoin Price to Soar as Japan’s Economy Worsens: BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes

The weakening Japanese yen could potentially lead to actions that drive up the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes. His central argument revolves around the fact the Japanese yen has been rapidly weakening against the US dollar due to the large interest rate differential between the two currencies. This hurts Japan’s export competitiveness against China.

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💰 WisdomTree first to get nod from FCA on spot Bitcoin ETP ahead of multi-product UK launch

WisdomTree has received approval from the Financial Conduct Authority to list its physically-backed Bitcoin and Ethereum ETPs on the London Stock Exchange. This approval allows WisdomTree to introduce the WisdomTree Physical Bitcoin and WisdomTree Physical Ethereum ETPs, targeting the May 28 lifting of UK restrictions. These ETPs, available exclusively to professional investors, have a management expense ratio of 0.35%, making them reportedly among the lowest fee institutional-grade crypto ETPs in Europe.

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💰 HAPPY BITCOIN PIZZA DAY 🍕

Laszlo made the first real-world transaction on May 22, 2010 using Bitcoin to purchase two Papa John's pizzas for 10,000 $BTC

Those 10,000 bitcoins are worth $701 million today

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💰 Spot bitcoin ETFs maintain positive momentum as FIT21 bill passes House vote

Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the U.S. reported total net inflows of $153.91 million on Wednesday, logging their eighth consecutive day of net inflows. BlackRock’s IBIT recorded the largest net inflows of $92 million among the 11 ETFs, according to data from SoSoValue. Fidelity’s spot bitcoin ETF followed with inflows of $75 million, while Ark Invest and 21Shares’ fund drew in $3 million on Wednesday.

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🇺🇸 U.S. 💰 Bitcoin ETF Holdings Hit New High of More Than 850K Tokens

U.S.-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds now hold a record 850,707 BTC in custody, beating a previous high above 845,000 from early April. Among those funds, Grayscale’s GBTC remains the biggest holder of bitcoin with 289,300 tokens worth more than $20 billion, followed closely by BlackRock’s IBIT at 283,200 and $19.6 billion, according to data tracked by HODL15Capital.

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💰 Venezuelan Authorities Seize Over 6,000 Bitcoin Miners in 2 New Operations; Over 17,000 Confiscated In Total

Venezuelan authorities led by the National Power Ministry and Corpoelec, the state-owned power company, have seized over 6,000 bitcoin miners in two new operations. The ministry, which recently declared that it would disconnect all bitcoin miners due to its high energy consumption, has already confiscated over 17,000 miners from several mining farms.

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💰 Argentina to Collaborate With El Salvador in Adopting Bitcoin: Report

Argentinian authorities are looking to work with officials in the Bitcoin-friendly El Salvador to enhance their adoption of the leading digital asset. According to an official report from the Argentinian National Securities Commission (CNV), the agency’s president and vice president, Roberto Silva and Patricia Boedo, held a meeting with Juan Reyes, the president of El Salvador’s National Digital Assets Commission (CNAD), last week to discuss the Central American country’s experience in adopting Bitcoin.

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💰 Bitcoin ETF approval was the ‘crossing of the chasm’ for its asset class size, says Michael Saylor

MicroStrategy Chairman Michael Saylor said the Bitcoin ETF approvals in January were not only important but cemented Bitcoin’s size as an asset class. “The single most important thing that happened in this epic was the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETFs,” said Saylor on the What Bitcoin Did podcast. “That was the crossing of the chasm which said that Bitcoin is not a multi-one hundred billion dollar asset class, bitcoin is a ten to 100 trillion dollar asset class.”.

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🪙 Bankrupt Mt. Gox trustee said it is not selling Bitcoin

The Rehabilitation Trustee of the defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox has confirmed that it has not sold its significant Bitcoin holdings despite transferring over 140,000 BTC (approximately $10 billion) today. The trustee clarified in a May 28 statement that preparations to repay creditors were ongoing. According to the firm, the bankruptcy process will compensate creditors with fiat currency, Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash. While fiat currency payments have already begun, creditors have not received digital asset payments.

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