LMAX Exchange to Offer Trading on the Digital Currency, Ven- Is Bitcoin Next?

Hub Culture, a social network service that operates a digital currency called Ven, has announced today in Davos that LMAX, the London-based exchange, has agreed to list Ven, enabling brokers, banks and financial institutions to trade the digital currency.

This development can be seen as a groundbreaking event for institutional investments in digital currencies as LMAX is a regulated FX exchange authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), as defined under MiFID. Brokers will for the first time be able to expose themselves to the digital currencies ecosystem without a need to correspond with an ad hoc solution.

Commenting on this, David Mercer, CEO of LMAX said: “Digital currencies, such as Bitcoin Bitcoin While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that While some may still be wondering what is Bitcoin, who created Bitcoin, or how does Bitcoin work, one thing is certain: Bitcoin has changed the world.No one can remain indifferent to this revolutionary, decentralized, digital asset nor to its blockchain technology.In fact, we’ve gone a long way ever since a Florida resident Laszlo Hanyecz made BTC’s first official commercial transaction with a real company by trading 10,000 Bitcoins for 2 pizzas at his local Papa John’s.One could now argue that Read this Term, have been the focus of a lot of attention over the last year. The challenge going forward is for them to become transferable. In order to become credible, virtual currencies have to be able to be used as a purchasing tool. Ven is ideal as the first virtual currency we are listing. But is also by no means the last, and fully we intend to exploit the market potential that credible virtual currencies have to offer.”

Unlike the distributed crypto currency Bitcoin and its sort, Ven is a digital currency operated by the privately held companies comprising the social network HubCulture. The currency has previously been available exclusively inside the network, where over 30 million Ven have been exchanged since it first appeared as a Facebook app in July 2007. In December 2009, Hub Culture began using Ven as a micropayment system for content produced by members in the network.

Ven has a floating exchange rate but is asset-backed by a mix of fiat currencies, commodities and carbon. HubCulture boasts that Ven was the first digital currency to float, the first used in bilateral commodity trading, and the first to include carbon in its makeup, making it "the only environmentally linked currency in existence."

Hub Culture Founding Director, Stan Stalnaker, commented on the launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “We believe Ven will help people transact in a direct way with a single price for goods and services and an embedded environmental benefit with every transaction. We are delighted that LMAX is the first regulated MTF to list Ven and see this as a significant step in the growth of what we believe will be a serious financial instrument going forward.”

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