{"id":2416,"date":"2022-01-13T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2022-01-14T01:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:59:06","slug":"reasons-why-pensions-are-investing-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/reasons-why-pensions-are-investing-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons why pensions are investing in Cryptocurrency."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening?  In the last 3 years pension funds in CA, NJ, Houston Firefighters, and Fairfax County VA all invested in cryptocurrencies in different forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? 33% of institutional investors are in crypto. Barriers are coming down for investment including crypto as being considered illiquid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? At least 17 states have started considering regulation of cryptocurrency.  The SEC is signaling regulation and the Infrastructure bill contains cryptocurrency reporting requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/finance\/2021\/12\/why-more-pension-funds-are-investing-cryptocurrencies\/360237\/\">Route Fifty | Why More Public Pension Funds Are Investing in Cryptocurrencies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? In the last 3 years pension funds in CA, NJ, Houston Firefighters, and Fairfax County VA all invested in cryptocurrencies in different forms. Why is this important? 33% of institutional investors are in crypto. Barriers are coming down for investment including crypto as being considered illiquid. How will this be important? At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}