Goldman Sachs unveils new cryptocurrency trading team in employee memo

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Goldman Sachs formally kicked off the cryptocurrency trading era on Wall Street.

The derivatives it traded, bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forwards, are ways to wager on the price of bitcoin. The contracts are settled in cash and don't require that Goldman deals with actual bitcoin, called "physical bitcoin" in the industry, because the bank isn't yet in a position to do so, Venkataraman noted in the memo.

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Why would trading crypto require a team? This is the problem, you want an alternative new-age currency, but what you have is a 100 'currencies' competing on a 24 hour casino market.

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