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Gary Gao, Lulu Yilun Chen, Tian Chen & Benjamin Robertson | Bloomberg Shanghai/Hong Kong/Beijing
‘Zhou Shuoji is not a Bitcoin believer. He says the cryptocurrency will never replace its traditional forebears, and he calls most of its proponents fanatics. But for Zhou, a 35-year-old high-speed trader in Beijing, Bitcoin is also too good to resist. His computers trade it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Using lightning quick orders, they profit from tiny price discrepancies on the myriad venues where it changes hands. “It’s the golden age to be in the Bitcoin market, because it's imperfect,” said Zhou, a former IBM technology consultant whose firm, Fintech Blockchain Group, runs a bitcoin hedge