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Bloomberg's Trading Terminals Now Providing Bitcoin Pricing

Posted by Unknown on from the internet-people-taking-over-world dept.

New submitter Raystonn (1463901) writes "Bloomberg has announced the release of Bitcoin support in their trading terminals, used worldwide by over 320,000 trading professionals. The market makers of the world will now have instant access to immediate Bitcoin prices on an industry-standard trading platform. This places the virtual currency before the eyes of the movers and shakers of most of the world's money supply as they decide where to invest their USD holdings."

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  1. Beginning of the End by cusco · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now the professional speculators will trash it for good. Get the amateurs out of the way, time for a REAL pump-and-dump cycle!
     

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  2. Re:What's the point of this? by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 5, Funny

    The sole use of Bitcoins are for drug addicts and drug dealers. Why would stock traders care about these people?

    Indeed, I find the mere association offensive. Drug addicts and dealers are respectable people.

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  3. Re:"invest their holdings" by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, dollars are backed by a stable government and the GDP of the USA. Bitcoin is backed by nothing.