• Spain’s largest bank is exploring Bitcoin, defining digital assets as a transformative technology.
• The bank has shared an informative article on the fundamentals, benefits, and implications of Bitcoin.

Santander, Spain’s largest bank is taking an interest in Bitcoin. The multinational financial services company that serves 5.2 million customers and with over $147 billion in assets has embraced Bitcoin and is sharing with customers and prospective investors the fundamentals, benefits, and implications of what it calls a transformative technology.

Although the bank has not announced any interest in investing in the technology or serving investors in this regard, it has started a Digital Assets 101 series that advocates for Bitcoin and its underpinning technology.

In this piece, the bank breaks down the features that make Bitcoin special which include its irreversibility, distribution, and security. Furthermore, it mentions one of the most innovative features which is being decentralized means of payment, which means that no central body can tamper with any transaction.

The post further explains how Bitcoin transactions work, stating;

If A wants to send a bitcoin to B, A must convey this request to the system in an action similar to the way traditional bank transfers are sent. Once the network receives this order, it then goes on to form part of a block (a block of information, as mentioned earlier). The network will confirm the signature of the transaction (this means that A has really ordered this transaction using his Private Key A) and that A possesses the bitcoin they want to send to B. Once the nodes verify this information, the block of information is added to the chain, the transfer is recorded, and the money moves from one account to the other.

On top of being a high-risk asset, the bank further noted the medium of exchange, energy use, scalability, and regulation as some of the challenges Bitcoin faces.

Santander is one of many major financial institutions embracing Bitcoin, however, it’s one of the few from the European region, a majority that showing major interest are based in the U.S. As CNF reported, Blackrock, an American multi-national investment company based in New York City is the most recent and notable one after it filed for a Bitcoin ETF.

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Continued support from financial institutions and the institutional investors that these big firms serve will move Bitcoin’s adoption and prices in a paramount way. Although the current involvement is slow and cautious, as these institutions dive deeper, this could easily drive Bitcoin to its ATH of $64,000 and beyond.

However, some analysts have warned that institutional investors could compromise the digital asset’s independence from traditional markets and could lead to centralization.

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