Quote from: Ruzka on February 09, 2016, 12:49:50 PM

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Quote from: the_poet on December 13, 2015, 09:21:07 PM

Is there any bank/financial institution somewhere in the world that has embraced Bitcoin? Not that I'd deposit my money there, I'm just curious to know it.

Accept bitcoin? I don't think so... However I have heard many times before several big banks allow you to purchased crypto coins from them at market value + a small fee... But I have never asked while being inside so I can't even confirm if its actually true Tongue

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As for the future, I don't see any banks accepting bitcoin in the future because they are so afraid of it. However I think it would be a wise publicity stunt for the first major bank that does accept bitcoin and even start letting the public invest bitcoin or earn a monthly interest on their bitcoins. That would bring that first major bank a lot of attention and new customers for sure!

Yes that would be great to give the banks control over our btc so they can loan it out at interest and play the market a gooden end up basically cornering the market after a not so long time period. They are the true pumpers and dumpers and if they get enough coin they will play the game and they will win.
Never get greedy and give your btc to banks for the promise of interest.
Much more important than that is being your own bank and not caring what the other banks are doing when it comes to btc.

Wow I couldn't agree more! That is so true. I'm very glad bitcoin is the way it is then because what you just said is exactly what would happen. On top of that, if that happened then everyone (mostly the stock players) would be sucking the life and profit out of the coin by playing the stock game. Psh, yeah screw that. Right on bro!