THELOGICALINDIAN - Intercontinental Exchange ICE buyer of the New York Stock Exchange could become the latest Wall Street amateur to action Bitcoin futures
That was according to the New York Times, which quoted abstracts and four bearding sources “briefed” on a angle for ICE to barrage Bitcoin trading options.
If correct, ICE would become the additional Wall Street behemothic to “go Bitcoin” this month, a anniversary afterwards Goldman Sachs appeared to confirm it would action a bulk of Bitcoin options.
According to the reports:
The outline broadly reflects Goldman’s antecedent approach, an controlling hinting futures affairs would be the bank’s aboriginal offering, followed by added absolute alternation with cryptocurrency after on.
Amid a abridgement of official animadversion from ICE, Goldman’s borderline comments still angle out adjoin astringent criticism of Bitcoin accustomed by Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett this week.
While the infamously anti-crypto mogul referred to Bitcoin abnormally as “rat adulteration squared” and “harvested babyish brains,” Goldman accepted it had “concluded Bitcoin is not fraud.”
Elsewhere in the city, Bill Gates advised in on Bitcoin Monday, telling CNBC it was “a ‘greater fool’ blazon of investment” but that he nonetheless “would abbreviate it if there was an accessible way to do it.”
His acutely adverse statements met with a challenge from the Winklevoss Twins, whose own Gemini barter afresh appear it would move into the over-the-counter (OTC) trading amphitheatre to allure broad investors.
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