Bitcoin: Wall Street comes on board
Regardless of the advice provided by financial advisors, more and more people are choosing to include Bitcoin in their savings and retirement accounts. Bitcoin is going mainstream. Today's Financial Times is reporting that SecondMarket, a New York based trading platform, which last year launched a Bitcoin fund for wealthy and institutional investors, has announced that it intends to launch another Bitcoin investment fund later in 2014, this time for ordinary, or less sophisticated investors. SecondMarket's Bitcoin investment trust, or BIT, will be trading on OTC markets' OTCQX, an....
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