Pantera Capital Launches The Their Own 'Bitindex'
Pantera Capital's interest in bitcoin has been growing immensely over the past year (that is their business, after all). So much so, in fact, the company has announced the launch of a little something they are calling the "Bitindex". News of this Bitindex came in the form of a newsletter sent out to investors recently, in which the company suggested the index would be of use for medium-term forecasting of bitcoin movements. But that's not to say its a measure or forecast of the bitcoin price: Pantera has developed the BitIndex to inform our views on bitcoin. It is not a tool to forecast....
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