Traders and bankers will get some of their bonuses in bitcoin
Banks and brokerages will tap bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to digitally juice big year-end payouts of hard cash and deferred stock awards to traders and bankers, Wall Street insiders claim.
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zerohedge on Twitter
“Gene Munster no longer does just iPhone channel checks, is now a crypto expert too, says bitcoin is a bubble”
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Hotly anticipated bitcoin futures surge 21 percent on debut
Bitcoin futures jumped more than 20 percent in their eagerly anticipated U.S. debut, which backers hope will encourage wider use and legitimacy for the world's largest cryptocurrency even as critics warn of the risk of a bubble and price collapse.
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UBS to Launch Live Ethereum Platform with Barclays, Credit Suisse and More - CoinDesk
Swiss banking giant UBS and a group of major banks plan to launch a live application later this month using the ethereum blockchain.
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Bitcoin futures surged as much as 26% on their first day
Futures of the cryptocurrency made their debut on the Cboe Global Markets exchange on December 10th, reports Bloomberg. With a 26% climb in its first session, the exchanged needed to halt trading twice after bitcoin futures surged 10% and then 20%. Bloomberg says bitcoin futures expiring in January climbed to as high as $17,540. The … Continue reading “Bitcoin futures surged as much as 26% on their first day”
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Bitcoin futures surged as much as 26% on their first day
Futures of the cryptocurrency made their debut on the Cboe Global Markets exchange on December 10th, reports Bloomberg. With a 26% climb in its first session, the exchanged needed to halt trading twice after bitcoin futures surged 10% and then 20%. Bloomberg says bitcoin futures expiring in January climbed to as high as $17,540. The … Continue reading “Bitcoin futures surged as much as 26% on their first day”
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Joel Comm on Twitter
“40 Key and Emerging Technologies to Drive The Future AI IoT Robotics Blockchain Cloud... by maelynn_cortez”
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Why Bitcoin? Why Now?
For most of its nine-year history, bitcoin has been a financial-markets sideshow, sneered at as a plaything of criminals. No longer: 2017 is the year the digital currency stole the spotlight.
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