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Title: Hedge Fund accepting bitcoin. Post by: Bitcoin Oz on October 21, 2012, 07:07:58 AM http://www.hedgeweek.com/2012/10/08/174393/emergence-electronic-gold%E2%80%A6 (http://www.hedgeweek.com/2012/10/08/174393/emergence-electronic-gold%E2%80%A6)
Quote “We will hold the Bitcoins securely in a Swiss vault over a period of three, five, 10 years. The fund will be a regulated entity through which institutional investors will be able to access the Bitcoin market,” says Knyazev. Does that mean they will hold paper bitcoins ? Title: Re: Hedge Fund accepting bitcoin. Post by: Stephen Gornick on October 21, 2012, 07:35:48 AM http://www.hedgeweek.com/2012/10/08/174393/emergence-electronic-gold%E2%80%A6 (http://www.hedgeweek.com/2012/10/08/174393/emergence-electronic-gold%E2%80%A6) Quote “We will hold the Bitcoins securely in a Swiss vault over a period of three, five, 10 years. The fund will be a regulated entity through which institutional investors will be able to access the Bitcoin market,” says Knyazev. Does that mean they will hold paper bitcoins ? Well, "paper bitcoins" in the same way that shares of crude oil in an ETF are paper oil (basically a contract representing a physical asset ) Related: 2012-10-08 hedgeweek.com - The emergence of electronic gold...? - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117289.0 Title: Re: Hedge Fund accepting bitcoin. Post by: toffoo on October 21, 2012, 08:02:44 AM It's great to see Bitcoin getting some exposure to that industry and see some institutional investors get involved, but I was hoping that a hedge fund would try to do something more clever than just stick a few BTC in a bank vault and wait.
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