Proposed laws would allow billions in Florida retirement, other funds to be invested in risky Bitcoin
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
Republican legislators have filed bills that would authorize politicians and bureaucrats who oversee Florida’s General Revenue Fund, the Florida Retirement System (FRS), the Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and other huge state funds to invest up to 10 percent of their cash in risky Bitcoin and “other digital assets.”
Those public funds, which hold tens of billions of dollars, should be allowed to convert a chunk of it to Bitcoin, a highly volatile asset, as a “hedge against inflation,” according to the bills’ sponsors State Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota (SB 550) and Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-DeLand (HB 487).
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