"What began as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system has steadily grown into the world's leading digital reserve asset. Along the way, Bitcoin has attracted not only cypherpunks and technologists but also institutions, public companies, and financial service providers seeking to incorporate it into their balance sheets and operations. This edition, The Finance Issue, explores one of the most significant and complex chapters of Bitcoin's ongoing journey: its integration into the world of corporate treasuries and mainstream finance."
"The numbers speak to this momentum. In just over two years, the count of public companies holding Bitcoin has grown fivefold, with nearly 200 such firms now collectively custodian to over one million BTC. Together, they represent more than $110 billion in value-an amount that rivals the reserves of some nation states. This institutional embrace underscores a trend that few could have anticipated a decade ago: Bitcoin is moving from the periphery of finance into its center."
Bitcoin has transitioned from a peer-to-peer electronic cash system into the leading digital reserve asset, drawing cypherpunks, technologists, institutions, public companies, and financial service providers. Adoption by listed firms, asset managers, and fintech platforms has reframed Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, treasury diversification tool, and element of financial engineering. In just over two years, public companies holding Bitcoin grew fivefold to nearly 200 firms collectively custodian to over one million BTC, representing more than $110 billion in value. Corporate treasury adoption raises questions about whether institutionalization will stabilize volatility or expose Bitcoin to systemic financial vulnerabilities and reinterpretation by investors and policymakers.
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