CNN Money Introduces Bitcoin Ticker XBT
World's largest business news website CNN Money recently launched a new and insightful Bitcoin Ticker XBT, featuring a real-time BTC/USD price widget as well as a Bitcoin news feeder. At press time, CNN Money is sourcing live price updates from BATS BZX - a highly accessed US Stock Exchange. While the news are extracting feeds from multiple sources such as FT.com, Market Wired, and others. Does it Benefit Bitcoin? For once, it seems like an interesting development for a website which is accessed by million of users around the world. At the same time, it definitely exposes an emerging....
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