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The Benefits of Allowing Bitcoin to Flourish
By MICHAEL BECKERMAN Technological innovations that make it easier and faster for people to interact directly have spurred some of the largest periods of economic growth in recent memory. Consumers have benefited greatly from new products and services that have lowered costs and made lives Read More...
Climbing, conservation and sushi making: a new breed of school activity
Extracurricular has become synonymous with extra special. The 2014 Character and Resilience Manifesto, produced by an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) backed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), senior politicians and the government’s social mobility adviser, argued that Read More...
The bitcoin was just recognized as an official commodity by the CFTC
It was the little currency that could, and now it really can. Despite being an effectively made up currency that was once used almost exclusively on the Web, the bitcoin is inching ever closer to legitimacy. Late last week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) took the virtual Read More...
Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit
Many technology start-ups aim to become “unicorns,” the companies that get valued at $1 billion or more on their way to probable vast riches. Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen have no interest in that. As the co-founders of Kickstarter, the popular online crowdfunding website that lets Read More...
Bitcoin use picking up in India
Bitcoin seems to be firming its foothold in India, which currently has nearly 50,000 bitcoin enthusiasts with 30,000 actually owning the digital currency. India is one of the fastest growing economies of the world, with a GDP growth forecast around 5.5 percent this year. With a population of 1.25 Read More...
Is Kickstarter becoming a research and development tool for big business?
The next time a cool new music player or drone catches the public’s imagination, there’s a good chance it won’t be an Apple or an Amazon product. Instead, it could be the result of thousands of small donations funneled to a tiny company, and built from the ground up through a Read More...
Investors in emerging markets 'more engaged' on sustainability concerns
London is currently hosting an important conference for the entire corporate and investor world that includes ‘re-defining fiduciary duty for the 21st century’ via the Principles For Responsible Investment (PRI).On its last day today,it reveals that retail investors in some emerging Read More...
Bitcoin's Shared Ledger Technology: Money's New Operating System
On July 31, 2014 Adam Ludwin, Devon Gundry and Ryan Smith–no-names in the world of finance–walked into a windowless conference room in a Los Angeles office building near LAX and sat down on black leather executive chairs at a mahogany table that could seat 12. A dual-screen Read More...
Greetings From Bitcoin Island
The Isle of Man is a strange place. Home to four-horned sheep, cats without tails, and perfectly preserved Victorian-era steam locomotives, this rock in the middle of the Irish Sea is perhaps best known for hosting the world’s most dangerous motorcycle race, the Manx TT. Read More...
Has Bitcoin Already Been Co-opted by Wall Street?
"People were telling the libertarians to shut up," says New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper, "but they were the only ones willing to put their money on the line and keep Bitcoin alive." Popper's new book, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Read More...