Bitcoins Black Friday
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/06/13/592661/bitcoins-black-friday/"The digital currency has not gone unnoticed by the City either. On Monday, this little tidbit was floating around Londons trading community fired off by a currency trader at a leading bank:
We noticed the amazing rally of the Bitcoin vs the dollar. The peer-to-peer virtual currency has risen as much as 5600% against the USD over the last year, trading from $0.5 to a little over $28 at last Thursdays close. To put this into perspective, if we saw cable make the same move in the next year, £1 would be worth $9,515.68 anyone making that currency play would literally coin it in
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