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<p>[QUOTE="Juan Blanco, post: 1684823, member: 41665"]Enterprising Cypriot traders skipped Gold for BitCoin.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://blog.willis.com/2013/03/5-financial-news-stories-you-may-have-missed-wakey-wakey/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blog.willis.com/2013/03/5-financial-news-stories-you-may-have-missed-wakey-wakey/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.willis.com/2013/03/5-financial-news-stories-you-may-have-missed-wakey-wakey/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"While that is hardly a lot of money in foreign currency terms (foreign exchange markets trade $4 trillion a day) what makes it particularly intriguing, and topical, is that when Cyprus imposed restrictions on moving money offshore this week, <b>it is believed that certain enterprising Cypriots bought Bitcoin with their restricted Euros. Bitcoin is transferable anywhere with the touch of button. While it is unclear what impact the Cyprus announcement had on the e-currency, Bitcoin values rose 20% …<i>this week!</i> It’s not clear if regulators can, or plan to try to, control this rather odd market– but, trust me, Cyprus is already doing the homework."</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Juan Blanco, post: 1684823, member: 41665"]Enterprising Cypriot traders skipped Gold for BitCoin. [url]http://blog.willis.com/2013/03/5-financial-news-stories-you-may-have-missed-wakey-wakey/[/url] "While that is hardly a lot of money in foreign currency terms (foreign exchange markets trade $4 trillion a day) what makes it particularly intriguing, and topical, is that when Cyprus imposed restrictions on moving money offshore this week, [B]it is believed that certain enterprising Cypriots bought Bitcoin with their restricted Euros. Bitcoin is transferable anywhere with the touch of button. While it is unclear what impact the Cyprus announcement had on the e-currency, Bitcoin values rose 20% …[I]this week![/I] It’s not clear if regulators can, or plan to try to, control this rather odd market– but, trust me, Cyprus is already doing the homework."[/B][/QUOTE]
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