Bits & Pieces

A few days ago, we spoke to a crypto fund manager who likes to gamble. He uses machine learning and other technology to maximize his profit. And that got me thinking... It's no secret that Bitcoin and other blockchain ...

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Last week, Overstock.com filed paperwork to begin offering stock (and perhaps other securities) in a digital form. The company's CEO, Patrick Byrne, has been planning this move since last summer, when he announced at a Bitcoin 2014 that he ...

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Happy 420! For probably a variety of reasons, April 20 is a day when people celebrate the cannabis subculture and perhaps consume a few extra green sticky leaves. My co-host, Tim Baker, told me once that he thinks special ...

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What do you do when you can't tell what's legal and what's not? Often, the answer is nothing. We simply rest on our laurels until the gov'ment tells us what's permitted, because we don't want to risk getting in ...

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Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com, is greatly respected by many in the Bitcoin community. His company started accepting Bitcoin relatively early (January 2014) and was the largest to do so at the time. Byrne is also well known ...

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It's easy to quote a reasonable Bitcoin price at any given time, but determining the true value of the cryptocurrency can be an entirely different task. When people ask me what the Bitcoin price is, I just look up ...

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It's no secret that having more Bitcoin services and merchants is better for Bitcoin adoption. Of course it's amazing to have companies like Microsoft and Dell accepting Bitcoin. Of course it's helpful to have services like BitPay and Blockchain ...

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Bitcoin mining centralization has been heavily discussed as a potential problem for quite some time now. The riskiest mining centralization event in recent Bitcoin history occurred in June 2014, when one pool, GHash.IO, crossed the legendary 51% threshold for ...

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