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Bitcoin => Press => Topic started by: kiko on July 06, 2013, 11:58:21 AM



Title: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: kiko on July 06, 2013, 11:58:21 AM
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/51b78cb6-e40e-11e2-91a3-00144feabdc0.html

More of a profile piece on the Winklevoss twins than a bitcoin article.

Funny cartoon though:
http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/7e64a521-1430-47b0-8ac2-3acc0180a58b.img


Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: CoinGames on July 07, 2013, 02:39:57 PM
Seriously, I don't get how they get so much press. What have they actually done apart from buying some BTC and investing in a couple of co.s?


Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: jgarzik on July 07, 2013, 02:57:06 PM
Seriously, I don't get how they get so much press. What have they actually done apart from buying some BTC and investing in a couple of co.s?

A bitcoin ETF is huge.

(note: they are not the only ones working on one...)



Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: prophetx on July 07, 2013, 05:34:02 PM
Seriously, I don't get how they get so much press. What have they actually done apart from buying some BTC and investing in a couple of co.s?

A bitcoin ETF is huge.

(note: they are not the only ones working on one...)



who else? is it public?


Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: bassclef on July 07, 2013, 06:24:23 PM
Seriously, I don't get how they get so much press. What have they actually done apart from buying some BTC and investing in a couple of co.s?

Because they are tall, handsome, went to Harvard, are mega rich, have had movies made about them... Etc... People love that crap.


Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: tstang on July 07, 2013, 06:29:30 PM
I dont think ETF is huge. If i recall, it was just couple of millions.


Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: Cubic Earth on July 07, 2013, 07:15:39 PM
I dont think ETF is huge. If i recall, it was just couple of millions.

The impact of the ETF is not about the number of bitcoins it currently holds.  It is the impact of the ETF's legal and financial structure that is truly huge, or will be when and if it is approved.  The CONCEPT is extensible to ANY NUMBER of bitcoins and or dollars.


Title: Re: 2013-07-05 Financial Times - Bitcoin Brothers
Post by: jgarzik on July 08, 2013, 05:56:02 AM
I dont think ETF is huge. If i recall, it was just couple of millions.

It is huge to expand bitcoin access to the millions of people globally that already have a brokerage account.