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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Buy bitcoins on Nasdaq
by
btceic
on 02/07/2013, 00:09:52 UTC
Now your 401k can invest in bitcoins,  retirement funds, every wall street trader...  this is opening floodgates.



It's still for the rich.  You're going to need about a million to invest, give or take depending on where the price goes.

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On the first day of trading, each Share in the initial Baskets was comprised of [0.20] Bitcoins, and each initial Basket was made up of [10,000] Bitcoins.

They're only selling them in "baskets" so the minimum purchase is 10,000 BTC.

No you are mistaken.  The basket is 10,000 shares = 2000 BTC but the purpose of the basket is merely to fund the IPO.  This is a PUBLIC offering on NASDAQ.  Once it goes public anyone with a brokerage account could buy any amount even a single share.  

Really this is no different than Gold trust for example.  To issue new shares or redeem existing shares requires a basket of thousands of shares however you can right now login to your brokerage account and TRADE (not ISSUE or REDEEM) a single share if you want.  The ability to issue or redeem baskets of shares allows the fund to remain balanced.  

For the record as far as I can tell this is just a preliminary filling, with numerous omissions, also I do not see anywhere where it states the exchange and definitely does not state nasdaq as the exchange.