Video Of The Week: Bitcoin Mining
I think this is the most interesting of the six Trust Disrupted episodes: USV TEAM POSTS:Nick Grossman — Dec 14, 2023You Never Know When You’ve Had a Bad DayAlbert Wenger — Dec 14, 2023The World After...
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What Has Gotten Into Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is up 16% this month: And it is up 86% YTD 2016: Obviously there is more demand for the leading digital currency than there is supply of it right now. My guess is this is speculation driven...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: The MIT Bitcoin Experiment
Two and a half years ago, MIT gave every undergraduate enrolled at the school $100 of Bitcoin. I helped to fund this experiment at that time. I thought it was a great way to “infect” young engineers...
View ArticleBitcoin Gains - Tax Advice For US Taxpayers
As Bitcoin has reached five figure levels this week, I have received a number of questions about taxes owed on Bitcoin gains. That is comforting to me. Bitcoin and crypto are a bit like religion. There...
View ArticleBeyond The Bitcoin Bubble
My friend Steven Johnson has penned a long and wonderful piece exploring what lies beyond the speculative market in crypto tokens. This essay, which will run in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, but is...
View ArticleBuying Bitcoin In Your IRA - The Alto IRA
I wrote about the idea of buying Bitcoin in your IRA last year. I got a lot of responses to that post and one of them was from the founder of Alto IRA. I set up an Alto IRA, moved my old IRA over to...
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Bitcoin - The Gateway Drug
The first crypto asset most people purchase is Bitcoin. It has the highest market capitalization. It has way more search interest. But Bitcoin is not all there is to the crypto sector. There is about...
View ArticleSmart Contracts On Bitcoin
While Bitcoin is the gold standard in crypto, Ethereum has been the innovator, bringing new ideas, particularly smart contracts, to the table. Smart contracts allow developers to easily build things...
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Bitcoin
I've mentioned Bitcoin a number of times on this blog. It is something our firm is watching closely. We thought briefly about making a Bitcoin specific investment earlier this year but ended up...
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Arduino, 3D Printers, Kickstarter, and BitCoin
AVC regular Dan Ramsden posted a thougtful essay on GigaOM yesterday. After I read it, I sent Dan an email and I said "do you think big beats little in this phase we are in?" Dan replied that he did...
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