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January 27, 2013, 10:36:18 PM
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"He is not alone. Workers at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in London and New York have been visiting online Bitcoin exchanges as often as 30 times a day, according to documents seen by Reuters. Neither bank wanted to comment.

Employees at almost all the major international banks and numerous trading and investment firms have shown interest."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/traders-bitcoin-idUSL6E8ET5K620120401
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January 27, 2013, 10:38:42 PM
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Yeah! And then froze Trahill account and forced Paxum to abandon relations with Mt.Gox Smiley
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January 27, 2013, 10:56:28 PM
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Yeah! And then froze Trahill account and forced Paxum to abandon relations with Mt.Gox Smiley

In both cases you have services that allow reversible transactions as a funding source being used to purchase Bitcoin and that is nothing but trouble.

Concerned that blockchain bloat will lead to centralization? Storing less than 4 GB of data once required the budget of a superpower and a warehouse full of punched cards. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
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January 28, 2013, 03:01:12 AM
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"He is not alone. Workers at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in London and New York have been visiting online Bitcoin exchanges as often as 30 times a day, according to documents seen by Reuters. Neither bank wanted to comment.

Employees at almost all the major international banks and numerous trading and investment firms have shown interest."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/traders-bitcoin-idUSL6E8ET5K620120401

yes, they are everywhere.
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