With exchange-traded bitcoin futures almost here, cryptocurrencies are becoming popular mainstream investment instruments in the eyes of many. As such, every trading and investing service must give its clients exposure to bitcoin in order to stay relevant. The latest company to jump on the bandwagon is Yahoo, offering its users new ways to track their cryptfolios.
Good idea to have a place where you can have an overview about your invesment in cryptos. There are already some apps and websites where you can track it, but if it's integrated into a well known service provider's toolpack, it can be comfortable for the average users.
On the other hand, this has only one advantage compared to an excel sheet, that it can update the exhange rates on demand and automatically. If you can manage to code into your excel sheet to grab the exchange rate from any of the popular exhanges, this above mentioned advantage vanishes