But the plot thickens, dear reader! Vanguard now holds a cool 12.44 million shares in Metaplanet, an enterprise that has not only embraced Bitcoin but is positioning itself as the globe’s most audaciously visible Bitcoin treasury firm. One might say Metaplanet is gallantly waving the flag of cryptocurrency, as if to challenge the very notion that ‘old money’ is incapable of developing a taste for the esoteric. How quaint, indeed, that such an old-world institution should see fit to flirt with a financial fad that once seemed the exclusive domain of young techie rebels and their ever-so-dramatic tattoos. 💰💎