{"id":43022,"date":"2021-05-24T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43022"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:47:51","slug":"blockstream-acquires-adamant-capital-tuur-demeesters-bitcoin-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blockstream-acquires-adamant-capital-tuur-demeesters-bitcoin-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockstream acquires Adamant Capital, Tuur Demeester&#8217;s bitcoin fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockstream, the infrastructure company, announced the acquisition of Adamant Capital, the cryptocurrency fund founded by bitcoin maximalist Tuur Demeester.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The not mentioned big deal in this tweet here is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuurDemeester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuurDemeester<\/a>, the guy that was my signal in the noise around bitcoin, back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blockstream?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Blockstream<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuurDemeester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuurDemeester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you keep up the high standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joris Kemperman (@j_kemperman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_kemperman\/status\/1396222940644089860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Demeester will become an advisor to the new division and join the board.<\/p>\n<p>Adamant Capital will be transformed into Blockstream Finance, which will offer clients investment products based on the Liquid Network.<\/p>\n<p>Blockstream&#8217;s Liquid Network, developed by Blockstream, is a settlement and payments network for bitcoin exchanges, market makers, brokers and other market participants.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Blockstream offers security tokens called Blockstream Mining Note. They <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blockstream-to-launch-hash-rate-backed-bitcoin-token\">provide<\/a> the holder with the right to mine bitcoin at the company&#8217;s facilities in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the crypto-lending platform BlockFi <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blockfi-becomes-partner-in-blockstreams-mining-business\">will place<\/a> mining equipment for cryptocurrencies in one of Blockstream&#8217;s data centers.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blockstream-unveils-jade-hardware-bitcoin-wallet\">entered the market<\/a> with the Jade open-source hardware cryptocurrency wallet for storing assets on the Liquid Network.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockstream, the infrastructure company, announced the acquisition of Adamant Capital, the cryptocurrency fund founded by bitcoin maximalist Tuur Demeester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43023,"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":[1867,307,1156],"class_list":["post-43022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-adamant-capital","tag-blockstream","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"40","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43024,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions\/43024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}