Thanks for the answer. It was just not that clear to me if that kind of business needs interesting mathematical models. The bank I was talking with was doing most of the part manually but they would like to automate the hedging for small positions. 

I think nobody cares about energy consumption until it's too expensive. I mean in the end, it's still ways cheaper then what banks do day by day. Also if mining becomes too expensive then less miners will do the job and the prices will decrease. My opinion the main problem in bitcoin is that the tra...

Hallo, I'm very interested in trading and was in an interview in a small bank last week. They are doing market making for fonds. So actually the price is published one time a day and then they provide liquidity to the markets.  What do you think, is that kind of business interesting & profitable...