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Harvard University, through its endowment, goes big on Bitcoin.

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Guillermo Jimenez
August 09, 2025

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How d’you like them apples?

Harvard Management Company, the non-profit responsible for managing the school’s endowment, is $116 million deep in Bitcoin. 

No, it didn’t pull a Michael Saylor—top blasting BTC on Coinbase. It did what many in the traditional financial world view as the safer, more responsible way to gain Bitcoin exposure. It bought shares in an ETF—BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, to be exact.

Why is that important? It once again demonstrates that those in the cryptocurrency industry, who were for years begging the SEC to give the green light to digital asset-based ETFs, were right all along: If you build them, the institutions will come.

And now, they’re coming—en masse. BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF alone holds more than $86 billion in assets under management.

You don’t need a Harvard MBA to know there’s one thing Bitcoin does extremely well over the long term: Numba’ go up.

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