Bitcoin in the Headlines: Wall Street Goes 'Nuts'
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media and its impact. While bitcoin's ability to deliver on its potential is still an open question, the number of Wall Street supporters for the technology grew this week, a development that was not lost in the headlines. Wall Street's new interest in bitcoin was the talk of many major publications, spurred by the news that major American stock market Nasdaq had licensed its technology to Noble Markets and further cemented by news the Bitcoin Investment Trust, the OTC Markets investment vehicle spearheaded by....
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