Financial custodian Kingdom Trust managing more than $13 billion in assets, has launched a retirement account supporting legacy, alternative, and crypto-assets.
The launch of the account “Choice,” follows the acquisition of Choice Holdings. Choice Holdings is a digital asset-focused retirement account that was built by CoinShare’s veterans.
Any asset, one account. It’s that simple 👇https://t.co/2v2wLhnIo3 — Choice by Kingdom Trust 🏰 (@choicebyKT) May 27, 2020
CoinShares founder and Kingdom Trust CEO, Ryan Radloff, estimates that there are 7.1 million Bitcoin holders in the United States alone:
“By our estimates, there are 7.1 million Americans who own Bitcoin, have a retirement account, but currently don’t have the option to hold Bitcoin in their retirement account with their other assets.”
7.1M bitcoin HODLrs have retirement accounts with dollars, but not #Bitcoin in them. Let's change that: https://t.co/Usr2CNARfV — Ryan BRRRRadloff (@RyanRadloff) May 27, 2020
Radloff continues:
“What we are doing, is we are now opening up the ability to not just trade Bitcoin, but you can do digital assets or legacy assets like your stocks and bonds from one [retirement] account.”
Radloff stated that the Choice product was motivated by a desire to give people the option of investing their retirement accounts into alternative and crypto assets, allowing people to get out of “the Fed’s rat-trap.”:
“When the [Internal Revenue Service] IRS decided to tax Bitcoin, consequently it enabled Bitcoin to be held by IRS and other qualified custodians that are regulated by the IRS and their state divisions. […] It directly enabled [Bitcoin] to be held by qualified custodians and in retirement accounts,”
Radloff sums up on the Bitcoin community:
“Most of the Bitcoin community doesn’t even know that they can hold Bitcoin in their retirement account yet.”
He further adds:
“Right now, most of these Americans’ retirement accounts are sitting at some bank that is telling them that Bitcoin is too risky while at the same time forcing them to only own stocks or mutual funds…I’m mad as hell about that. So we’re out to do something about that, where you can have the choice to own Bitcoin or stocks and bonds from one account for the first time, so that we’re not just dictated by these banks to stay in the Fed’s rat-trap.”
Kingdom Trust already backs more than 100,000 retirement accounts and custodies over 20,000 assets including Bitcoin (BTC).
Kingdom Trust will give $62.50 worth of BTC to the first 1,000 Choice account holders.
Source: Cointelegraph | Image: Unsplash