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Global banking giant HSBC saHSBA.LN +0.62%id Thursday that a post referencing bitcoin and attributed to one of its top bankers didn’t come from the bank, after all.

After the post appeared on GapJumpers, a recruitment website, it was shared widely on social media and picked up by several bitcoin-related sites.

The post asked potential internship applicants to submit arguments for or against bitcoin being part of HSBC’s consumer products.

After a public relations executive at HSBC told Digits the post was genuine, Digits wrote about it, too. But on Thursday, HSBC reversed course and said the blog didn’t come from Suresh Balaji, the bank’s global head of marketing strategy, after all. GapJumpers took the post down late Wednesday, saying it was posted in error.

(This Digits post was corrected after HSBC said the bitcoin post in question didn’t originate with the bank. The original Digits post, which was published on June 18, has been removed.)

Source " http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/hsbc-seeks-bitcoin-savvy-interns/ "

banks will not be the people that sell you bitcoins. they wont be the ones with their cashiers scanning QR codes.

banks are contracted to FIAT. you will never see a bank cashier hand car keys, artwork or gold over the tellers counter.

DEAL WITH IT

banks will not have bitcoins for customers. but they will slowly learn what bitcoin is and realise the risks are equal to cash, and slowly allow BUSINESSES and INDIVIDUALS the freedom to use the FIAT in relation to bitcoin. its already happening

Bitcoin is an asset that banks could conceivably hold on their balance sheets, in a more business-as-usual scenario.

Banks can't do this legally YET though, because the regulatory framework is still being assembled as we speak.