Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto (wsj.com)
(Monday November 17, 2025 @05:40PM (msmash)
from the how-about-that dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/1834233/harvard-has-almost-half-a-billion-dollars-in-crypto
- Source link: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-11-17-2025/card/harvard-has-almost-half-a-billion-dollars-in-crypto-3LY7baRZFleixSCSO7Kt
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Harvard is [1]ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency . The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter.
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> The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school's $57 billion endowment. Other schools are bullish on crypto as well. Brown University reported holding $13 million of the BlackRock bitcoin ETF in the second quarter and Emory University reported holding $20 million of Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF as of March.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-11-17-2025/card/harvard-has-almost-half-a-billion-dollars-in-crypto-3LY7baRZFleixSCSO7Kt
> Harvard is [1]ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency . The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter.
>
> The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school's $57 billion endowment. Other schools are bullish on crypto as well. Brown University reported holding $13 million of the BlackRock bitcoin ETF in the second quarter and Emory University reported holding $20 million of Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF as of March.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-11-17-2025/card/harvard-has-almost-half-a-billion-dollars-in-crypto-3LY7baRZFleixSCSO7Kt
Pick One (Score:2)
by organgtool ( 966989 )
Are they a university for research and learning or a tax-haven for investments^W gambling.
Did we not have reason enought to hate Harvard? (Score:2)
by TheMiddleRoad ( 1153113 )
Imagine if they had put more of their endowment into scientific research and less into crypto.
I keep being right! (Score:2)
by NoMoreDupes ( 8410441 )
[1]Getting tired of winning. [slashdot.org]
[1] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23845594&cid=65796402
Re: (Score:1)
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Probably a secret deal with Trump (Score:2)
by gurps_npc ( 621217 )
He said "Buy my crypto or no funding."
They better have pressed SELL last month (Score:1)
by Nicholas Grayhame ( 10502767 )
no? press it now and limit your losses before donnie two dolls opens his mouth again
HODL (Score:2)
by allo ( 1728082 )
LOL
I don't blame them (Score:2)
Trump is trying to bankrupt them.
Re: (Score:2)
> Trump is trying to bankrupt them.
Event + Trump = OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: (Score:2)
>> Trump is trying to bankrupt them.
> Event + Trump = OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But for what values of "Trump"? Here, I believe it still holds true if Trump=0, though maybe it loses a exclamation point or two?
Re: (Score:2)
> But for what values of "Trump"? Here, I believe it still holds true if Trump=0, though maybe it loses a exclamation point or two?
I hadn't looked at it that way. Different values applied to the "Event" variable could result in wildly different exclamation numbers. I'll need to rework that equation. It was way too early for public consumption. My bad
Re: (Score:2)
> Event + Trump = OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
** "Event" as in "epsilon" - "insignificant or arbitrarily small positive quantity"