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Charles Schwab is bringing Bitcoin to its 39 million clients – but without the protections they expect

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Charles Schwab announced this week that it will begin selling Bitcoin and Ethereum directly to its 39 million brokerage clients. They will appear in the same account view as stocks, ETFs, and retirement funds, in the same app, under the same brand, one click from the S&P 500 index fund a customer bought for their […] The post Charles Schwab is bringing Bitcoin to its 39 million clients – but without the protections they expect appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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