Pantera Launches BitIndex to Track Bitcoin
Pantera Capital, an investment fund that focuses on bitcoin, has announced an index it says will allow investors to track the cryptocurrency over a medium-term timeframe. Dubbed the BitIndex, it takes into account seven different factors that Pantera believes accurately charts bitcoin's overall progress. What's interesting is Pantera Capital is not including price in the BitIndex, instead tracking other data sources that it believes lends to bitcoin's technological progression. In the fund's monthly report for June, Pantera stated: "While some other indices also offer guidance (such as....
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Pantera Capital's interest in bitcoin has been growing immensely over the past year (that is their business, after all). So much so, in fact, the company has announced the launch of a little something they are calling the "Bitindex". News of this Bitindex came in the form of a newsletter sent out to investors recently, in which the company suggested the index would be of use for medium-term forecasting of bitcoin movements. But that's not to say its a measure or forecast of the bitcoin price: Pantera has developed the BitIndex to inform our views on bitcoin. It is not a tool to forecast....
On October 6, Pantera Capital published an investor’s note written by Dan Morehead, the company’s CEO. Unlike the myriad of crypto investors who believe that a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will send the crypto asset’s value to the moon, Morehead explains it could be a negative event and when it officially launches he said he “might want to take some chips off the table.”
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Investment firms Fortress Investment Group (FIG), Benchmark Capital and Ribbit Capital have teamed up with Pantera Capital to launch a bitcoin investment fund. The new fund will be known as Pantera Bitcoin Partners LLC and, as the name implies, it will be controlled by Pantera. Fortress, Ribbit Capital and Benchmark Capital will be minority equity partners. Fortress became the first Wall Street investment firm to enter the bitcoin space. Last year it was rumoured to be acquiring bitcoins and a regulatory filing published in February revealed it had set aside $20m for bitcoin investments in....
New reports are indicating that some well-known investment firms are teaming up to form a fund that focuses on digital currencies, namely bitcoin. Fortress Investment Group, Ribbit Capital, and Benchmark Capital are joining Pantera Capital to form a new venture dubbed Pantera Bitcoin Partners, LLC. The move comes not long following news that Fortress' stash of bitcoin has lost a significant amount of value. It also highlights the closing gap between the bitcoin ecosystem and Wall Street. "We're very excited about the promise of Bitcoin and how it can transform the way we move money," said....
“We want to provide liquidity for people that are kind of giving up because we’re still very bullish for the next 10 or 20 years,” said CEO Dan Morehead. Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, reportedly said the hedge fund was planning to raise $1.25 billion for a second blockchain fund.According to a Sept. 28 Bloomberg report, Morehead said Pantera aimed to close the blockchain fund by May. The fund will reportedly invest in digital tokens and equity in an effort to appeal to institutional investors.“We want to provide liquidity for people that are kind of giving up because....