Confirmed: Bloomberg staff are testing a bitcoin price ticker

Confirmed: Bloomberg staff are testing a bitcoin price ticker

Article updated on August 11 at 23:50 (BST). A source inside Bloomberg has privately confirmed that the company is testing a bitcoin ticker among its internal staff. The news, which should be officially confirmed by Monday, first surfaced on BTCGeek yesterday. The site said that someone overheard an employee of the financial giant at a Satoshi Square meeting mentioning that the currency was now available on the terminal, and that subsequent checks confirmed it. "Bloomberg employees can see the Bitcoin ticker under {XBT Crncy} on their Bloomberg terminal and look up it's [sic] pricing,"....


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