Man Who Dumped Hard Drive Containing $381M BTC Gets Hedge Fund Backing To Rec...
The British IT professional has revealed that his attempt to recover his lost fortune has been sponsored by a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that is willing to cover any and all costs associated with the hunt, including all necessary equipment. Hedge Fund To Back Hunt James Howells, a British IT professional who threw out a […]
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A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins stored in the hard drive for permission to search the city’s landfill site. His bitcoins are now worth almost $300 million at the current price. In Search of Hard Drive Containing 7,500 Bitcoins James Howells, an IT engineer, mistakenly threw away the hard drive of an old computer containing 7,500 bitcoins. The coins, worth almost $300 million at the current price, is now in a landfill site in Newport, South Wales. The 35-year-old explained that he....
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones expects crypto to have a bright future as the Fed hikes interest rates to fight inflation. The famed investor emphasized, “It’s hard not to want to be long crypto.” Famed Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Jones on Bitcoin, Crypto Billionaire investor and renowned hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones talked about bitcoin in an interview with CNBC Tuesday. Jones is the founder of asset management firm Tudor Investment Corp. “I see this generational divide and it’s a digital divide,” the billionaire said.....
In July, a hedge fund in Jersey issued a press release announcing that it had become the first regulated fund to deal in bitcoin. The Jersey fund, called Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), later said it was seeking $200m in assets under management. In subsequent months, mentions of GABI have been regularly prefaced by its status as the first regulated bitcoin hedge fund by everyone from the BBC to Newsweek. Now another hedge fund is challenging GABI's claim. Crypto Currency Fund, managed by Timothy Enneking, says that it, not GABI, should rightfully be referred to as the....
No longer is bitcoin for the enthusiast, it would seem. With increasing popularity, businesses - and now financial institutions - are looking to get their hands into the pot. Case in point: A San Francisco-based hedge fund is seeking to bring aboard what they call a "Junior Bitcoin Execution Trader", according to a job posting by Glocap that was emailed to a list of subscribers. The hedge fund's (unclear just which one) "seeking a junior trader to assist with bitcoin execution, general fund operations, and reporting." We've seen interest in bitcoin from hedge funds before, but this is the....
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against a cryptocurrency hedge fund founder for fraud. The regulator is seeking an emergency order freezing $25 million in digital assets held by a crypto hedge fund he controls. Crypto Hedge Fund Founder Sued in the US The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued a crypto hedge fund founder in Manhattan federal court. The regulator alleges that Stefan Qin, a 23-year-old Australian, defrauded investors in his $92.4 million cryptocurrency arbitrage fund, according to Tuesday’s court filing. Qin founded New....