[2018-09-24] Bitcoin Bulls Winklevoss Twins Eye Huge New European Market

[gentlemand]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/09/24/bitcoin-bulls-winklevoss-twins-eye-huge-new-european-market/#121eec934982

Odd that the Winklevii are considering the UK considering that unless you're Coinbase no fucker will give you a bank account. On top of that the UK might find itself frozen out of EU markets in a pretty fundamental way too. I suppose there's plenty of Russian money laundering still game in Britain.

If I were them I'd be heading to Dublin or Frankfurt.

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[NeuroticFish]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/09/24/bitcoin-bulls-winklevoss-twins-eye-huge-new-european-market/#121eec934982

Odd that the Winklevii are considering the UK considering that unless you're Coinbase no fucker will give you a bank account. On top of that the UK might find itself frozen out of EU markets in a pretty fundamental way too. I suppose there's plenty of Russian money laundering still game in Britain.

If I were them I'd be heading to Dublin or Frankfurt.

The choice is indeed odd, but I doubt that UK will get marginalized out of EU. It's too much money at stake and they'll have to keep, more or less, the whole flow.
Frankfurt is one obvious choice indeed, also Germany looks pretty good pro-crypto choice. Malta could be another option, better than UK.
But UK is not the worse option also, imho. And maybe they preferred native English speakers too.

[gentlemand]

But UK is not the worse option also, imho. And maybe they preferred native English speakers too.

I presume finance will sort itself out in the end, but there's still a whole continent just across the water guaranteed to have zero issues plus plenty of banking options.

Perhaps they're only interested in headquartering there and not trying to run an actual exchange because getting banking in the UK is still a bitch of a task after all this time. After Coinbase I suppose Gemini is the next option most likely to reassure a bank, but it's still not in the bag by any means.