{"id":3192,"date":"2025-05-02T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/brown-university-bought-and-owns-4-9-million-of-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:16:43","slug":"brown-university-bought-and-owns-4-9-million-of-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/brown-university-bought-and-owns-4-9-million-of-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Bought And Owns $4.9 million of BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Brown University Bought And Owns $4.9 million of BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to a new SEC filing<\/a> today, Brown University, a private university based in Providence, Rhode Island, revealed a large position in BlackRock\u2019 spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, as first reported<\/a> by market analyst MacroScope. The position showed Brown held $4,915,050 in IBIT as of March 31, 2025, which sees the school become the third U.S. university to publicly announce a Bitcoin purchase after Emory & University of Austin (UATX), according<\/a> to VanEck\u2019s Matthew Siegel.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cIn a 13F filing this morning, Brown University reported owning 105,000 shares of the IBIT Bitcoin ETF as of March 31, valued at $4.9 million,\u201d MacroScope posted<\/a> to X. \u201cThis is a new position, which means it was acquired in January, February or March. The total value of all 14 positions in the filing is $216 million. This is an important one.\u201d<\/p>\n

A growing number of U.S. universities are signaling confidence in Bitcoin\u2019s<\/a> long-term potential by adding the digital asset to their endowment portfolios or academic programs. Previously, Emory University, and the University of Austin (UATX) have each disclosed Bitcoin-related initiatives, further validating the cryptocurrency\u2019s institutional appeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emory University was the first to disclose its Bitcoin holdings, revealed in an October 25 SEC filing<\/a>, that it owned nearly 2.7 million shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF, initially worth $15.1 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

With Bitcoin<\/a> reaching all-time highs since purchasing, Emory\u2019s holdings may now exceed $21 million. Emory Investment Management (EIM) CIO Srinivas Pulavarti noted that the ETF conversion led to the public disclosure of their position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some risks with doing it yourself,\u201d said<\/a> Emory\u2019s Associate Professor of Accounting Matthew Lyle on buying the Bitcoin ETFs vs purchasing and holding the Bitcoin themselves. \u201cWhereas if you use a company like Grayscale or BlackRock to do it for you\u2026 it\u2019s unlikely that they\u2019re going to steal your money because they\u2019re well known.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In May 2024, the University of Austin also gained exposure to Bitcoin, by partnering with Bitcoin financial services firm Unchained to raise $5 million in Bitcoin for its endowment. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the values the organization places on free speech and on building a modern academic institution\u2026 and I\u2019m thrilled to play a role in helping the university make bitcoin a part of its long term strategy,\u201d stated<\/a> Unchained CEO Joseph Kelly, who donated 2 BTC to the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversity endowments are about serving students,\u201d added Thomas Hogan, incoming Associate Professor at UATX. \u201cAnd bitcoin provides a unique opportunity for advancing UATX\u2019s commitment to cultivating future generations of leaders and innovators.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

This post Brown University Bought And Owns $4.9 million of BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Jenna Montgomery<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Brown University Bought And Owns $4.9 million of BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF\u00a0 According to a new SEC filing today, Brown University, a private university based in Providence, Rhode Island, revealed a large position in BlackRock\u2019 spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, as first reported by market analyst MacroScope. The position showed Brown held $4,915,050 in IBIT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}