SecondMarket Starts First U.S. Trust for Bitcoin Virtual Money
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SecondMarket Inc., where stock of private companies such as Facebook Inc. traded before they went public, started the first U.S. fund investing solely in the Bitcoin virtual currency.
Shares of Bitcoin Investment Trust are being offered exclusively through SecondMarket, which also provided a $2 million investment, the New York-based trading platform said in a statement today.