Perseus Telecom Launches Digital Currency Initiative, Integrated Exchange
Perseus Telecom has launched a new initiative with the aim to provide industrial-strength security for bitcoin exchanges, e-commerce, online gaming and multimedia sites. Perseus started accepting bitcoin payments just last month. The company is a provider of high-speed communications used by hedge funds, trading firms and media organisations in major financial hubs from London to Tokyo. The company's Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) is being introduced just weeks after the Mt. Gox failure and Perseus seems to think that no crisis should ever go to waste. In fact, it is hoping to....
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Perseus Telecom, a high-speed, heavy-bandwidth communications channel provider for major global stock and securities exchanges, has revealed today that it will accept bitcoin payments. Perseus connects hedge funds, high-speed trading firms, media organizations and stock exchanges in the world's top trading centers, including: Brazil, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Stockholm and Tokyo. Commenting on the news, Jock Percy, Perseus' CEO, called bitcoin "a valuable digital asset and form of payment", and indicated in an interview that it was not the company's....
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