The Rothschild investment corporation has just purchased Bitcoin via the Bitcoin Investment Trust GBTC.

The latest signed article of the US Commission on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), signed on Friday, indicates that the Rothschild family has diversified into cryptocurrencies, now owning $210,000 worth of Bitcoin.

The news has spread quickly in social media:

Funnily enough, two days ago @anonnews has posted an article called "Rothschild Controlled Media Outlet: ‘Get Ready for a World Currency by 2018’ - Did They Mean Cryptocurrency?"

What is the Bitcoin Investment Trust?

The Bitcoin Investment Trust shares are publicly quoted securities, the rate of which is formed in accordance with the bitcoin price. Such assets are designed to expand the possibilities for investing in bitcoin by using a traditional investment instrument - shares of the exchange fund (ETF). This approach, in particular, relieves investors from the need to purchase and store crypto currency.

Public trading of shares under the ticker GBTC was opened in March 2015. Each of the fund's shares represents about one-tenth of the current bitcoin price.

Earlier this year, Rothschild & Co The Rothschild family warned of crypto-crooks using the Rothschild family name and logo as a fraudulent crypto currency scheme. But now it's official: Rothschild has finally invested into Bitcoin.