Tag: Digital Assets
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Fannie and Freddie Prepare to Count Crypto in Loan Approval Decisions. How Will the Market Respond?
In June 2025, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to map out how cryptocurrency could be counted as an asset for home loan applications. Borrowers could keep their crypto accounts. They would not need to convert assets into dollars to receive their loans. In a directive signed on June…
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Christie’s New Crypto Real Estate Announcement Picked Up by New York Times
Real estate in the United States just passed a new milestone. The luxury firm Christie’s now has a $1 billion portfolio of homes whose owners will accept cryptocurrency from interested buyers. And the firm has just opened a division exclusively for buyers who want to pay with the digital coins. As you might imagine, the…
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Luxury Homes, Bitcoin Bros… And the Rest of Us
Love it or hate it, there’s one thing that’s hard to deny. Bitcoin’s enjoying a highly successful year. The launch of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has so far been a resounding success for Wall Street’s financial powerhouses. BlackRock alone has accumulated $20 billion in bitcoin, just in the last three months since the firm opened…
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Real Estate or Bitcoin? In 2024, Investors Consider the Tradeoffs
Bitcoin watchers have noticed surprising amounts of real estate profits being converted into bitcoin. The reason comes down to unpredictable returns in real estate for wealthy investor-buyers. At the same time, “Bitcoin, as an emerging asset class, potentially offers much higher growth potential for many investors,” writes Nik Hoffman for Bitcoin Magazine. Wow, much potentially…
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Digital Real Estate Titles? Watch What Wall Street Says About Blockchain
Some of Wall Street’s biggest banks — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, the list goes on — are quietly integrating blockchain, the technology that spawned bitcoin, into their businesses. In fact, Wall Street firms have been experimenting with blockchain for years. Regardless of what bitcoin does, blockchain technology will flourish. Tom Farley, ex-president of the New…
