{"id":16418,"date":"2025-03-06T06:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16418"},"modified":"2025-03-06T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:47:49","slug":"microsoft-may-have-given-bitcoin-investments-a-miss-but-a-large-msft-stock-holder-is-a-strong-crypto-blockchain-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16418","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft May Have Given Bitcoin Investments A Miss But A Large MSFT Stock Holder Is A Strong Crypto, Blockchain Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Corp.\u2019s<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSFT#NASDAQ\">MSFT<\/a>) refusal to explore <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) investments dampened the spirits of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who had hoped the tech behemoth&#8217;s move would drive demand for the leading digital asset.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s worth noting that one of its largest shareholders, <strong>State Street Corp. <\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/STT#NYSE\">STT<\/a>), is a known backer of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>A financial services giant, State Street, managed about $4.7 trillion in assets as of this writing, making it one of the world&#8217;s biggest asset managers. The firm also manages the <strong>SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF Trust <\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/SPY#NYSE\">SPY<\/a>), the world\u2019s largest and arguably the most popular exchange-traded fund.<\/p>\n<p>Aside &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44159088\/microsoft-might-have-given-bitcoin-investments-a-miss-for-now-but-one-of-its-largest-investors-has-been-an-avid-a\" alt=\"Microsoft\" may have given bitcoin investments a miss but large msft stock holder is strong crypto blockchain advocate>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp.\u2019s (NASDAQ:MSFT) refusal to explore Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investments dampened the spirits of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who had hoped the tech behemoth&#8217;s move would drive demand for the leading digital asset. However, it&#8217;s worth noting that one of its largest shareholders, State Street Corp. (NYSE:STT), is a known backer of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-16418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}