Fortress May be First Public Company to Own Millions of Dollars in Bitcoins, Discloses $20m Worth
Fortress Investment Group purchased $20m worth of bitcoins last year, according to a recent filing with the SEC. Back in December it was rumoured that Fortress had plans to launch a bitcoin investment fund. The news was first reported by CNN, but it could not be confirmed until now. Fortress is said to be developing a new investment vehicle based on bitcoin which is expected to be an unlisted Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). The move appears to have been connected to San Francisco-based Pantera Capital. Pantera then registered an investment advisor entity called Pantera Bitcoin Advisors LLC and....
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Fortress Investment Group is the first large public company to file Bitcoin holdings with the SEC. (NYTimes) Fortress Financial Group LLC, an asset manager worth $4.25 billion, reported in its annual SEC filing a $3.7 million unrealized loss in bitcoin holdings. I wouldn't feel too bad for Fortress though, as its latest financial report includes this statement by CEO Randy Nardone: “It was an outstanding year for Fortress, driven by strong investment performance across virtually all asset classes and funds. Full year distributable earnings per share increased by nearly 70% over 2012, and....
An SEC filing from last year shows that the Fortress Investment Group previously purchased $20 million worth of bitcoin. The company is reportedly preparing themselves for a launch of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). At the end of 2013, the group reported having on the order of $16.26 million worth of bitcoin holdings, reporting over $3.7 million in losses or unrealized gains, according to bitcoin news website CoinDesk. When you consider how much the price have dropped since the end of last year, it's very likely the company's losses are, at this juncture, even greater. All told, this makes....
Billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke’s company, Aker, has established a new business dedicated to bitcoin. Rokke believes that bitcoin could “become the core of a new monetary architecture” and each coin could be “worth millions of dollars.” His new company “will keep all its liquid investable assets in bitcoin.” Norwegian Public Company Gets Into Bitcoin Norwegian oil billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke has spoken in favor of bitcoin. His company, Aker ASA, which controls oil and oil service companies, announced Monday that it has established a new business,....
Australian newspaper The Age this week reported that millions of dollars worth of bitcoin has been seized in a drug bust spearheaded by Victorian authorities. Said report indicates that the Director of Public Prosecutions "obtained a restraining order" on the bitcoins from the suspected drug traffickers' wallet some time in 2012-2013. This information came from the office's most recent annual report presented on Tuesday in state parliament. "Criminals have embraced the digital currency to transact in illicit goods and to launder money across borders, posing a challenge to law enforcement,"....
The government of Finland is discussing supporting Ukraine with part of the money from the liquidation of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency seized in crime investigations. Finnish authorities want to sell the bitcoins soon and say they couldn’t come up with a better idea for the proceeds.
Finland Selects Brokers to Sell $75 Million of Confiscated Crypto
Authorities in Helsinki have recently chosen two brokers to organize the sale of over €71 million ($75 million) worth of bitcoin (BTC) in the coming weeks. The country owns the coins that have been sized....