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I try to think long term, so I noted with interest that one of the serious players in the investment space, Fidelity (the largest retirement plan provider in the US), is launching a 401(k) cryptocurrency product. Roughly 23,000 companies use Fidelity to administer their retirement plans, and it has more than $11 trillion in assets under administration so its decision to allow such assets into these plans is really significant.
Even with my limited knowledge of financial markets though, I might
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