Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Looking at the order books, i'm not convinced we're moving anywhere (significantly...)
Agreed. Good to see steady finallyWith that said CoinBase just got a huge infuse of VC....
http://recode.net/2015/01/20/bitcoin-firm-coinbase-raises-75-million-from-dfj-the-nyse-and-two-banks/
Yep, bitcoin is dead
Coinbase has raised $75m as part of a Series C funding round backed by a host of impressive first-time bitcoin investors including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Fortune 500 financial services group USAA, Spanish megabank BBVA and Japanese telcom giant DoCoMo.
Too add onto that... I think this is from NYSE themselves:
http://otp.investis.com/clients/us/intercontinental_exchange_group/usn/usnews-story.aspx?cid=953&newsid=28438
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Released : 20 January 2015
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, The New York Stock Exchange, has made a minority investment in Coinbase, a leading bitcoin wallet and platform with over 2.1 million consumer wallets, 38,000 merchants and 7,000 developers.
Coinbase was established in 2012 in San Francisco and provides a platform for people to easily and securely use the digital currency bitcoin.
With this investment, we are tapping into a new asset class by teaming up with a leading platform that is bringing transparency, security and confidence to an important growth market, said NYSE President Tom Farley. We look forward to supporting Coinbases growth utilizing our global distribution capabilities and market expertise.
The New York Stock Exchange will work with Coinbase to bring additional transparency to bitcoin pricing. ICE is a leading provider of financial information and market data and has worked through its benchmark administration business to restore confidence and integrity in financial data.
Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, The New York Stock Exchange, has made a minority investment in Coinbase, a leading bitcoin wallet and platform with over 2.1 million consumer wallets, 38,000 merchants and 7,000 developers.
Coinbase was established in 2012 in San Francisco and provides a platform for people to easily and securely use the digital currency bitcoin.
With this investment, we are tapping into a new asset class by teaming up with a leading platform that is bringing transparency, security and confidence to an important growth market, said NYSE President Tom Farley. We look forward to supporting Coinbases growth utilizing our global distribution capabilities and market expertise.
The New York Stock Exchange will work with Coinbase to bring additional transparency to bitcoin pricing. ICE is a leading provider of financial information and market data and has worked through its benchmark administration business to restore confidence and integrity in financial data.
Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
i think ETF is around the corner then ? i think this is very