Do you own bitcoin? You could soon have some without even knowing it.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they invest in you.

That’s the scene that bitcoin investors and enthusiasts are facing. After years as an underground digital currency and a running joke in the world of finance, bitcoin is suddenly attracting attention from the people who once called it a scam: the big institutions of finance, who collectively control trillions of dollars.

And it might not even be a matter of "if." It’s now just a matter of "when."

BY JASON ABBRUZZESE

http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/bitcoin-institutional-investors/?utm_cid=hp-hh-sec#dLUk2GwOSmqL