{"id":34064,"date":"2020-12-28T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T07:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34064"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:54:07","slug":"blackrock-posts-vice-president-vacancy-in-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/blackrock-posts-vice-president-vacancy-in-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock posts vice-president vacancy in blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest investment company, BlackRock, has posted a vice-presidential vacancy in blockchain, as stated on the site.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The executive&#8217;s duties will include crafting and implementing strategies designed to stimulate demand for the company&#8217;s cryptocurrency offerings.<\/p>\n<p>BlackRock is seeking a specialist who understands the fundamentals of blockchain technology and the methodology for valuing cryptocurrency assets. The successful candidate should have a background in economics or business administration, and an understanding of decentralized governance models.<\/p>\n<p>As of 30 September 2020, BlackRock managed assets worth $7.81 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>The Fund Advisors division owns 14.79% of the shares of MicroStrategy, the analytics software provider. In December the latter invested in bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-invests-another-650-million-in-bitcoin\">additional $650 mln<\/a> \u2014 altogether it owns about 70,470 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink signaled <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-sees-bitcoin-as-a-global-market-asset\">the transformation of the first cryptocurrency<\/a> into a global-market asset.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackRock, the world&#8217;s largest investment company, has posted a vice-president vacancy in blockchain, according to the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[865,25],"class_list":["post-34064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blackrock","tag-blockchain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34065,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064\/revisions\/34065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}