{"id":16206,"date":"2021-06-04T19:56:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0284b2304000270a"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:06:48","slug":"bitcoin-2021-institutions-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/industry-events\/bitcoin-2021-institutions-role","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin 2021: Bitcoin Ubiquity And The Role Of Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><em>This conference session took place during Whale Day at the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/b.tc\/conference\"><em>Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami on June 4 and 5<\/em><\/a><em>. Make sure that you set a reminder for the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zp43Ktm3wos&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bitcoin 2021 day one YouTube live stream<\/em><\/a><em> and one for the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VVDNEnRAZU4&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bitcoin 2021 day two YouTube live stream<\/em><\/a><em> now.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"GowBEhPAYqg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bitcoin 2021: Bitcoin Ubiquity And The Role of Institutions\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GowBEhPAYqg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GowBEhPAYqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch this conference session on YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Gutmann, co-founder and CEO of New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), sat down with Unchained Capital\u2019s Parker Lewis to discuss \u201cBitcoin Ubiquity And The Role Of Institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re giving legacy financial institutions access to the bitcoin ecosystem to bring products and services to market, that&#8217;s how we&#8217;re fulfilling the mission of bringing bitcoin to as many people across the world as possible,&#8221; said Gutmann on the role of institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;Bitcoin really is the North Star,&#8221; said Lewis in regards to the advantages of bitcoin over other altcoins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Join the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBitcoinConf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>#Bitcoin2021<\/em><\/a><em> party from anywhere in the world by joining our conversation on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/officialbitcoinmagazine\"><em>Telegram<\/em><\/a><em>. Plus, be sure to <\/em><em>subscribe to our newsletter<\/em><em> to stay on top of the latest Bitcoin news and all the happenings at Bitcoin 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gutman and Parker Lewis discuss the current and future roles of institutions in Bitcoin in this Bitcoin 2021 speaker session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":16038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2213,178,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-16206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry-events","8":"tag-bitcoin-2021","9":"tag-financial-institution","10":"tag-institutions"},"author_data":{"id":2520,"name":"Bitcoin Magazine","nicename":"bitcoin-magazine","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-magazine-logo.jpeg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/op-ed-bitcoin-in-africa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}