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Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk

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My best guess is that the "store-of-value that can't be manipulated by banks" is effectively over. Big banks it seems will take over the trading volume of the big crypto coins and develop their own exchanges.

They may be able to partially manipulate the price, but they can't influence the currency or money supply. That's the beauty of crypto.

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They typically do this for a few reasons: 1. High net worth clients demanding such products. 2. Obvious FOMO. 3. In case this crypto thing becomes big they don’t want to be criticized. 4. All companies are seeing a nice bump in their share prices with any association to crypto

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They typically do this for a few reasons: 1. High net worth clients demanding such products. 2. Obvious FOMO. 3. In case this crypto thing becomes big they don’t want to be criticized. 4. All companies are seeing a nice bump in their share prices with any association to crypto

HNWIs are definitely starting to talk about and ask for crypto products. EDIT: I work in the area, not a shill.

Best performing asset class over the last few years. Even if it is a bubble, you might as well allocate a few %'s of your portfolio to it if you're wealthy..

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Going to need some rules and regulations. Last thing we need are big banks overleveraging on crypto currencies for the excess return. When, not if, this bubble bursts hopefully it doesn't take the whole economy down with it. The whole financial market wants exposure to crypto at this point.

You can't regulate cyptocurrencies. That's the beauty of the whole thing.

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They typically do this for a few reasons: 1. High net worth clients demanding such products. 2. Obvious FOMO. 3. In case this crypto thing becomes big they don’t want to be criticized. 4. All companies are seeing a nice bump in their share prices with any association to crypto

Mostly I think it's 1. A lot of people jump on guys like Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein for calling Bitcoin massively volatile / a bubble / whatever, like they hate cryptocurrencies. They don't care, and they aren't supposed to. Their business is to sell whatever the customer wants to buy, cheaper or easier than they can get it elsewhere - and right now the customer wants to buy Bitcoin. Who cares if the backside fa…

Don't forget Jamie Dimon's company is founding their own blockchain for transactions, Quorum.

https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/Quorum

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So much for the promised currency / store-of-value that can't be manipulated by banks / governments.

Isn't it mostly being manipulated by drug traffickers and money launderers right now?

Wow, you're behind the curve, aren't you.

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#39

Going to need some rules and regulations. Last thing we need are big banks overleveraging on crypto currencies for the excess return. When, not if, this bubble bursts hopefully it doesn't take the whole economy down with it. The whole financial market wants exposure to crypto at this point.

You can't regulate cyptocurrencies. That's the beauty of the whole thing.

Hell you can. For example, you can make exchanges illegal. Done.

Re: Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk

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Going to need some rules and regulations. Last thing we need are big banks overleveraging on crypto currencies for the excess return. When, not if, this bubble bursts hopefully it doesn't take the whole economy down with it. The whole financial market wants exposure to crypto at this point.

You can't regulate cyptocurrencies. That's the beauty of the whole thing.

But you can regulate how banks can invest their money.
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