“to facilitate trading in the digital currency by high-frequency trading firms “
Good luck! There website barely loads now! Not a great confidence builder.
No luck necessary, Moore’s law and Metcalf’s law are in full effect. Nothing known to man at this time can stop the adoption of Bitcoin!
There is no website for bitcoin. These traders will transact bitcoins in the chain and that is distributed and robust (has not failed). As they transact more, the miners will get more fees and there will be more miners.