Blockchain Bites: BlockRock Exec Says Bitcoin Is ‘Here to Stay,’ Investors Load Into BTC Puts

Major bitcoin miners are signaling their support for the network’s Taproot upgrade. Institutional buyers are loading up on BTC puts, Deribit analysts say. Goldman Sachs thinks the  “digital yuan” could be in a billion hands in a decade.  Top shelf BlackRock SquawksA top BlackRock executive, in charge of where the world’s largest asset manager invests its fund, said that bitcoin could take the place of gold, because it is “so much more functional than passing a bar of gold around.” Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, BlackRock CIO of Fixed Income…