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Title: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: CryptoCurrencyInc.com on February 21, 2015, 03:24:16 AM CNN adds Bitcoin ticker
http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=XBT http://i61.tinypic.com/wgwcw2.jpg Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: CryptoNames on February 21, 2015, 04:21:57 AM Interesting that they are treating it like a stock..
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: funtotry on February 21, 2015, 04:22:51 AM Thats very good. When sites like google and CNN add support for quickly checking btc price, people will eventally see it. If they see a new ticket they will research it and that could potentially be a new adopter.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Bobsurplus on February 21, 2015, 04:23:14 AM Interesting that they are treating it like a stock.. as long as they treating it I cant complain. Its a tad late though. Bloomberg had a ticker over a year ago. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: croato on February 21, 2015, 04:25:27 AM Better late then never...
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: twister on February 21, 2015, 05:00:11 AM Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Jamie_Boulder on February 21, 2015, 05:25:08 AM Interesting that they are treating it like a stock.. Everything is treated like a stock, including USD.Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: CrackedLogic on February 21, 2015, 05:38:24 AM Good, I hope it raises awareness.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Lauda on February 21, 2015, 06:30:55 AM Even though this is a nice thing, they are even incapable of implementing this correctly (something that a 10 year old can do with minor coding skills).
'Latest XBT News' should be 'Latest BTC News'. Someone should contact them. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: calme on February 21, 2015, 06:55:36 AM It's pretty fucked up that the most "official" ticker symbol for BTC is one that no one really even uses. It's similar to calling a VCR an "XVC."
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: tins on February 21, 2015, 06:56:57 AM Also interesting that they add this after the Spurlock episode airs.
They may be moving in the 'acceptance' phase in regards to Bitcoins. 2015- The year of acceptance! Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: LiteCoinGuy on February 21, 2015, 08:50:36 AM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Alty on February 21, 2015, 09:08:34 AM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ Interesting article but still don't understand why they couldn't just call it BTC like everyone else. GOLD shouldn't that be GLD and not XAU SILVER shouldn't that be SLV and not XAG What drugs are these people in the office in Zuirch smoking? :D Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: niktitan132 on February 21, 2015, 09:10:16 AM Nice thing that CNN added Bitcoin price ticker. :)
Good, I hope it raises awareness. I hope the same,Bitcoin is still young. ;D Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Possum577 on February 21, 2015, 05:29:22 PM Interesting that they are treating it like a stock.. They treat it like a currency. Of course they have to add it to their ticker symbol list after this week's Inside Man episode! They need to appear connected to their news! Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Shattered on February 21, 2015, 05:43:17 PM Any major news outlet such as CNN simply acknowledging BTC is a positive thing.
I DVR the Spurlock episode the other day, but have yet to watch it. Glad to see him do a show about something that should have been done in 2010. Its really amazing at what a slow rate the general public is waddling through life, in terms of technology. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: countryfree on February 21, 2015, 06:08:18 PM Great news! It's nice to hear about a major news service taking BTC seriously.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: manselr on February 21, 2015, 06:12:31 PM Any major news outlet such as CNN simply acknowledging BTC is a positive thing. I DVR the Spurlock episode the other day, but have yet to watch it. Glad to see him do a show about something that should have been done in 2010. Its really amazing at what a slow rate the general public is waddling through life, in terms of technology. They had this documentary about living for a week with BTC and now they get this. Looks like they are definitely pro bitcoin. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: NeuroticFish on February 21, 2015, 06:18:42 PM Quote Interesting article but still don't understand why they couldn't just call it BTC like everyone else. GOLD shouldn't that be GLD and not XAU SILVER shouldn't that be SLV and not XAG What drugs are these people in the office in Zuirch smoking? :D Lol! Not everybody speaks English. AU and AG are the symbols used in chemistry for gold and silver. Some altcoins follow the standards and their ticker is already 3chr starting with X. Bitcoin should do that too. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: R2D221 on February 21, 2015, 06:24:23 PM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ Interesting article but still don't understand why they couldn't just call it BTC like everyone else. GOLD shouldn't that be GLD and not XAU SILVER shouldn't that be SLV and not XAG What drugs are these people in the office in Zuirch smoking? :D Why GLD and not ORO? Why SLV and not PLT? Not everyone speaks English, and these are international standards. That's why they use internationally recognized chemical symbols (Au and Ag), with the X prefix for “not a country currency”. What I do wonder is, why is there EUR, if the European Union is not a country? Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: twister on February 21, 2015, 06:35:31 PM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ That's just stupid. Let's start calling EURO - CNT Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: LiteCoinGuy on February 21, 2015, 07:19:17 PM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ That's just stupid. Let's start calling EURO - CNT No, its perfect: "In some cases, the code reflects a non-governmental unit such as gold (XAU) and silver (XAG)." Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: koelen3 on February 21, 2015, 08:18:27 PM Wow!
CNN is awesome! It is treating bitcoin more like a share now han! Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Sophokles on February 21, 2015, 08:49:53 PM Excellent! One more step towards mainstream adoption.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: pereira4 on February 22, 2015, 12:21:53 AM If only celebs starting accepting bitcoin for their music and whatnot and twittering about it we'll be really close to mainstream adoption.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: unamis76 on February 22, 2015, 01:29:17 AM Good for them. It's about damn time they have it!
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: ebliever on February 22, 2015, 03:18:43 AM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ It's a pain, because most of us have BTC firmly in our brain. But if you pay attention to exchanges and such, many of them have been listing bitcoin under XBT for a long time now. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: MakingMoneyHoney on February 22, 2015, 03:43:02 AM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ It's a pain, because most of us have BTC firmly in our brain. But if you pay attention to exchanges and such, many of them have been listing bitcoin under XBT for a long time now. Because currencies not connected to a specific country start with x. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: R2D221 on February 22, 2015, 04:05:41 AM I assume BTC is taken by some other financial instrument? Actually, no. But using the current ISO standard, anything BT_ is related to Bhutan. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: ebliever on February 22, 2015, 04:08:38 AM Thanks guys. I guess if I was Bhutanese I wouldn't want someone trampling my space. :P
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Brewins on February 22, 2015, 06:24:45 AM because of iso 4217 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217 Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: tss on February 22, 2015, 07:00:03 AM that's great. love to see it more places :-)
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: lyth0s on February 22, 2015, 07:02:32 AM X__ is any cross national currency and thus XBT makes sense for the financial markets.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Harry Hood on February 22, 2015, 07:03:49 AM Yahoo's offered the BTC/USD conversion in their ticker system for almost a year...CNN's just catching up.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: |Bitcoin| on February 22, 2015, 07:05:30 AM Great to see more and more websites is putting Bitcoin ticket.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: lyth0s on February 22, 2015, 07:07:20 AM Yahoo's offered the BTC/USD conversion in their ticker system for almost a year...CNN's just catching up. However, It's nice that the bitcoin ticker is on CNN Money Market's homepage! Just imagine when bitcoin is the 4th ticker on your favorite news channel after SP500, DIJA, Nasdaq, BTC :D Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Daniel91 on February 22, 2015, 10:39:26 AM Yahoo's offered the BTC/USD conversion in their ticker system for almost a year...CNN's just catching up. However, It's nice that the bitcoin ticker is on CNN Money Market's homepage! Just imagine when bitcoin is the 4th ticker on your favorite news channel after SP500, DIJA, Nasdaq, BTC :D Yes, really great news for bitcoin and us! It's really give us confidence that very soon bitcoin will be accepted by other big companies and merchants and become mainstream. Right now, people are loosing their faith in bitcoin and selling it in panic, for very low price. We have to change such trend and such news can help and increase confidence in btc again. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: najzenmajsen on February 22, 2015, 11:19:12 AM Its as good as the news of google offering conversion rates for Bitcoin :) they do ? where o_O i belive this is better tho.Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Q7 on February 22, 2015, 01:17:49 PM http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-gaining-market-based-legitimacy-xbt/ Interesting article but still don't understand why they couldn't just call it BTC like everyone else. GOLD shouldn't that be GLD and not XAU SILVER shouldn't that be SLV and not XAG What drugs are these people in the office in Zuirch smoking? :D You should find this quote from any article "Currently, BTC is the leading candidate as it is in common use globally. However, ISO 4217 standards expect a leading letter “X” for global commodities like gold (XAU) and emergent supranational currencies like the precursor to the Euro (XEU). To this effect, some leading foreign exchange tools and services have already adopted the leading code “XBT” such as Xe.com, Oanda and Bloomberg." Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: GonnaGrinditout on February 22, 2015, 01:30:34 PM Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: bitwarrior on February 22, 2015, 01:36:36 PM This is good news. Btw the ticker is still there on http://money.cnn.com/data/markets . This will increase awareness and more exposure on bitcoins towards the masses.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Beymond on February 22, 2015, 04:00:52 PM Pretty awesome!
And i like their concept of using a new name for it i.e. XBT Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: BillyBobZorton on February 22, 2015, 05:13:04 PM If only they could do a proper show going a bit more in deep about why BTC is important it would be better.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Mellnik on February 22, 2015, 06:07:23 PM What the fuck. They don't even offer SSL. I'm not going to use such a big website which doesn't even offer SSL in 2015.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: thejaytiesto on February 22, 2015, 06:37:06 PM What the fuck. They don't even offer SSL. I'm not going to use such a big website which doesn't even offer SSL in 2015. Yeah lol wtf. Https or bust. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: nikona on February 24, 2015, 01:00:55 PM What the fuck. They don't even offer SSL. I'm not going to use such a big website which doesn't even offer SSL in 2015. Yeah lol wtf. Https or bust. Haha..yeah.. SSL is pretty much a must these days..especially for a site as big as CNN Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: ChuckBuck on February 24, 2015, 01:43:16 PM XBT, BTC, Bits for Tits....I"ll take it! :P
Just to have a Bitcoin Ticker on the main CNN Money Markets is a plus no matter which way you slice it. Yes, Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, and Bloomberg had tickers before CNN, but just continuing positive coverage in the mainstream media is a boon. And that CNN Inside Man was nice little doc wasn't it! Need Morgan to do another one maybe in a year or so, when there's even more acceptance. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: 1Referee on February 24, 2015, 01:48:11 PM It's a great sign of some believe in Bitcoin from CNN.
Every step in the right direction counts and is important. XBT is already being used by exchanges and other sites, it's not new. I think more and more companies and services, etc, will use XBT in the future. Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: AtheistAKASaneBrain on February 24, 2015, 03:08:19 PM Meanwhile others like Wordpress remove it... why would they? jackasses.
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: Beymond on February 24, 2015, 05:49:15 PM Wow! that's really nice initiative by CNN
Title: Re: CNN adds Bitcoin ticker Post by: freedomno1 on February 24, 2015, 05:50:57 PM CNN adds Bitcoin ticker http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=XBT http://i61.tinypic.com/wgwcw2.jpg Nice another ticker added It's been a while since the last series remember when it was yahoo and google then a few others CNN makes a nice addition :) |
