I don't know what to think anymore...
Public sentiment about Bitcoin or any investment shouldn't be that important to you except for trading purposes. Opinions are borne from personal interest and that changes at a heart beat. A company would change their position about Bitcoin if that position favours them and their interest would possibly not favour you:
• Always have your own opinion,
• Study the fundamentals,
• Do Your Own Research,
• Take all other opinions with a pinch of salt.
OP, what is it you said about Fidelity mining bitcoin? Is that true? I never heard anything about that (or don't remember). It seems odd to me that a brokerage would be mining any cryptocurrency--but it's a strange new world we're living in.
I came across the news sometime this year or last, it was one of their executives who was quoted to have said that, they started mining Bitcoin experimentally very early on. Here's one link I could find;
The company is testing the Coinbase holdings integration with its employees, Johnson said. “I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds,” Johnson said at a blockchain conference called Consensus in New York City.