Genesis Trading Sees Interest in Classic Ether Market

Genesis Trading Sees Interest in Classic Ether Market

A prominent digital currency trading service reports that investors are expressing an interest in buying into the version of the ethereum blockchain that rejected last week's hard fork. Over-the-counter digital currency trading service Genesis Global Trading is now trading classic ethers (ETC), but reports its volume at less than $100,000 in purchases thus far. Serving institutions and individuals, Genesis sells blocks of the digital currency, as well as alternatives such as bitcoin, with a minimum order size of $25,000. Despite a small number of initial buyers, CEO Michael Moro said he is....


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