Oct 14, 2020 at 19:00 UTC
(dalebor/iStock via Getty Images Plus) A $10B Firm Makes Bitcoin Its Primary Treasury Asset
Stone Ridge Holdings Group announces $50 million in new funding for its digital asset subsidiary as well as significant BTC treasury holdings.
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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com , Nexo.io and Elliptic .Today on the Brief: Bitcoin hashrate at all-time highs Record number of large companies lose money during the pandemic JPMorgan releases research note on bitcoin Our main discussion: Stone Ridge Holdings Group discloses $114 million in bitcoin treasury assets.
NLW digs into what Stone Ridge is, why it spun off New York Digital Investments Group (NYDIG) and how the company has quietly built itself into a serious player in the institutional crypto asset space.
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