Bitcoin Goes Mainstream With Inclusion on Yahoo! Finance
This article has been updated with Yahoo's comment. Access to bitcoin price data in the world of mainstream finance has taken another big step in the last 24 hours. Following Bloomberg's recent addition of bitcoin to its trading terminals in late April, and its inclusion on computational knowledge engine WolframAlpha, Yahoo! Finance has followed suit and now displays the BTC/USD price along with its many other listed fiat currencies. A Yahoo spokesperson told CoinDesk that move was driven by the site's users, many of whom had requested the addition of the feature: "We've added bitcoin to....
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Yahoo Finance, a popular hub for casual and professional traders, has begun adding bitcoin prices to their extensive index of information (see the picture above). Available under the ticker BTCUSD=X [link], the page will provide users with the latest price (not that they couldn't get it elsewhere), along with news items, as any finance website would show. But it's an interesting development, with many users in the community taking this as a good sign in the ever-developing bitcoin story. Surely, Yahoo's stamp of approval (which could be seen as further legitimizing the digital currency)....
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