USAA Bank Studying Bitcoin Technology
USAA, the bank that mainly markets to US military members and their families, is looking into utilizing Bitcoin to their advantage, for the purpose of increased efficiency. The managing director of the Texas-based bank's corporate development, Alex Marquez, told Reuters this past week that the bank would be looking into utilizing the block chain for the purpose of decentralization of some of its operations. Presently USAA has a sizable team investigating uses of the block chain for their the 93-year-old bank. Marquez told Reuters: We have serious interest in the block chain and we think....
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