Barclays considering Bitcoin trading desk.

[Reatim]

Barclays Plc, a British multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in London, has a fairly long history of putting down Bitcoin. Now, the financial institution looks to be changing its tune as it begins gauging its clients’ interest in a potential cryptocurrency trading desk.

http://bitcoinist.com/barclays-considering-bitcoin-trading-desk/

It looks like another institutional investors trying to join the crypto picture as well. Do you think it will bring some positive effect the ecosystem?

We all have seen CBoE and CME affecting the market in a negative way, so I supposed that this is not as welcoming as others might think.

Your thoughts?

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[o_e_l_e_o]

First it was JP Morgan, then it was Goldman Sachs, now it is Barclays. The next in what will be an ever increasing list of big financial institutions that disparage crypto before changing their mind and getting involved.

[Victorycoin]

We all, the early adopters of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are fortunate and envy of the institutional traders and it's no wonder they had had to experiment with names calling and blackmail. but Bitcoin for the revolution, which time has come it represents, has refused to bulge.  Seeing Bitcoin still standing and waxing even stronger have finally called their bluff and we have started seeing them coming one after the other but before long it would be in droves  and that's the time of mass adopter, we have been hoping for, we're inching closer every day and unless give up, we would get there.

[onnz423]

It's a positive change to see a large bank actually considering integration with bitcoin technology (even if it is an exchange) rather than waging war against it. I guess this will be the first of its kind, and will actually allow the bank to track transactions in bitcoin thus leaving a trail, unlike when people take out a loan to buy BTC and then default.

[Jating]

It's a positive change to see a large bank actually considering integration with bitcoin technology (even if it is an exchange) rather than waging war against it. I guess this will be the first of its kind, and will actually allow the bank to track transactions in bitcoin thus leaving a trail, unlike when people take out a loan to buy BTC and then default.

They have nothing to lose and everything to gain if they would just allow bitcoin to be part of them. Crypto and the new revolution, rather than waging war against it, they should embrace it and I'm sure that they will gain a lot money by having its own trading desk where most of their clients can do crypto currency trades.

First it was JP Morgan, then it was Goldman Sachs, now it is Barclays. The next in what will be an ever increasing list of big financial institutions that disparage crypto before changing their mind and getting involved.

Probably more will follow and I guess we can considering this really a good news for us. Maybe around few years from now, we may see the bitcoin adoption growing to astronomical levels as this big financial institutions are all getting involved.

[parobber]

It's a positive change to see a large bank actually considering integration with bitcoin technology (even if it is an exchange) rather than waging war against it. I guess this will be the first of its kind, and will actually allow the bank to track transactions in bitcoin thus leaving a trail, unlike when people take out a loan to buy BTC and then default.

They have nothing to lose and everything to gain if they would just allow bitcoin to be part of them. Crypto and the new revolution, rather than waging war against it, they should embrace it and I'm sure that they will gain a lot money by having its own trading desk where most of their clients can do crypto currency trades.

First it was JP Morgan, then it was Goldman Sachs, now it is Barclays. The next in what will be an ever increasing list of big financial institutions that disparage crypto before changing their mind and getting involved.

Probably more will follow and I guess we can considering this really a good news for us. Maybe around few years from now, we may see the bitcoin adoption growing to astronomical levels as this big financial institutions are all getting involved.

They have something to lose, it's just that they do not have the foresight to realize that it's inevitable. What they stand to lose is their ever increasing monopoly on online and international payments. However if they embrace Bitcoin like you said, I'm sure that in a number of years the profits they can generate from doing so will outweigh those lost by boosting the legitimacy of bitcoin as a payment option.

[thefaucetrunner]

Another installment in the never-ending saga of the maturity of cryptocurrency. Reminds me of this quote: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~Arthur Schopenhauer

[Xester]

Barclays Plc, a British multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in London, has a fairly long history of putting down Bitcoin. Now, the financial institution looks to be changing its tune as it begins gauging its clients’ interest in a potential cryptocurrency trading desk.

http://bitcoinist.com/barclays-considering-bitcoin-trading-desk/

It looks like another institutional investors trying to join the crypto picture as well. Do you think it will bring some positive effect the ecosystem?

We all have seen CBoE and CME affecting the market in a negative way, so I supposed that this is not as welcoming as others might think.

Your thoughts?

As long as they are not against bitcoin then it is a good move to be accepted by the masses. Barclay is one of the leading investment bank which headquarters is located in London, and if they will join on the bitcoin and cryptocurrency race by putting up a cryptocurrency trading desk then it can help boost the bitcoin market. If this happens more people will also be convinced that bitcoin and cryptocurrency has a real value and is deemed to have good future.

[bartolo]

Another installment in the never-ending saga of the maturity of cryptocurrency. Reminds me of this quote: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~Arthur Schopenhauer

This also happened with the internet, at first many people didn't believe in their potential and now the internet is everywhere. With bitcoin something similar will happen, it will be something daily and will be used in the same way that today a mobile phone with an internet connection is used. As for the news itself, I don't think it will have a big impact on bitcoin, it's just another example of a bank that seems to change its mind to adapt to the interests of its customers.

[Simon Eaton]

So last week this come out

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/like-flu-season-the-infectious-spread-of-bitcoin-could-be-over-barclays-says.html

This is Barclays coming out claiming bitcoin is like a infection, in a bad way. And now they are considering opening a trading desk. What is that about? These institutions flip flop more than politicians!

[onnz423]

It's good that they're thinking about this, I know they see cryptocurrency as competition, so they should at least allow direct interconversion using a platform they can control. it's a small step but a strong one.

[franky1]

lets clarify the truth

barclays cannot themselves handle a vault of bitcoins and offer a trading platform for people to trade fiat for bitcoin directly.
barclays however recently accepted coinbase to use barclays bank account services to offer deposits/withdrawals for coinbase customers.
muh like apple opening an account with barclays to accept UK £ to buy apple products, does not suddenly make barclays able to sell apple products in a bank branch

in short
this does not mean barclays is getting into the 'bitcoin' market. it just means that there is a connection between a bitcoin exchange and barclays. which many stupid and silly word twisters then want to propagandise as barclays may get into the bitcoin market.

again
barclays cant/wont offer a bitcoin trading platform. but barclays can be shareholders of coinbase or another third party service, separate from barclays business where coinbase could develop a special service under the coinbases brands for something barclays shareholders want

[eaLiTy]

It looks like another institutional investors trying to join the crypto picture as well. Do you think it will bring some positive effect the ecosystem?
We all have seen CBoE and CME affecting the market in a negative way, so I supposed that this is not as welcoming as others might think.

franky1 just summarized what is really going to happen with Barclays. When it comes to future market, earlier we could predict the market according to the volume of coins traded in the exchanges but with the introduction of future market it is a different scenario but one thing i noticed is that the volatility level has decreased.

If this happens more people will also be convinced that bitcoin and cryptocurrency has a real value and is deemed to have good future.

Looking at the current market valuation we do not need to convince others to join the market, we are well past that era, now the price depends upon huge institutional investments and when that flow of money comes in the market will start rising.

This also happened with the internet, at first many people didn't believe in their potential and now the internet is everywhere.

I do not remember anyone undervaluing the potential of internet technology, may be there were people who did not understand what it is all about, ignorance is not a crime.