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(Bloomberg) — The pension fund for Houston's firefighters is tip-toeing into cryptocurrency investing. The Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund, which has $5.5 billion of assets, said it invested $25 million in Bitcoin and Ether through NYDIG, a Bitcoin-focused subsidiary of asset manager Stone Ridge.

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