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title: Wisconsin Investment Board's Bitcoin Investment
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4852566/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4852566
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4852566
featured: 2024-06-05
citations: unknown
topic: Crypto & DeFi
---


# Wisconsin Investment Board's Bitcoin Investment

Wisconsin Investment Board's recent Bitcoin ETFs investment indicates a move towards mainstream cryptocurrency acceptance, despite debates about Bitcoin's role as an inflation hedge and concerns about market volatility and regulation.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4852566
- Identifier: SSRN 4852566
- Released: 2024-06-03
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 52 (2024-06-05): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-06-05/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Crypto & DeFi

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