Bitcoin Exchange Bitstamp Enables EUR/USD Trading
In an announcement yesterday, Bitstamp has announced that clients can now trade Euros for Dollars, marking the bitcoin exchange’s entry into the biggest traditional currency trading pair in the foreign exchange market. Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has entered the largest and the most liquid trading market in the world, Forex, by enabling EUR/USD trading for its clients. The foreign exchange market sees over $5 trillion in trading every day, easily dwarfing the likes of the Futures and the Equities market. That’s an average of over $200 billion, every hour. While the forex encompasses all....
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