Dealbook – Bitcoin Gets Ready for its Close-Up:
Reporters Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) and Peter Lattman (@peterlattman) share some new investments made both in Bitcoin and Bitcoin startups. Excerpts of their NY Times Dealbook article:
“Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been many things in a short time: Olympic rowers. Nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg. Characters on ‘The Simpsons.’ Now they can add a new label: bitcoin moguls.”
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“The Winklevii — as they are popularly known — say they own nearly 1 percent of that, or some $11 million.”
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“Now mainstream investments in the digital money are starting to emerge. On Thursday, a group of venture capitalists, including Andreessen Horowitz, announced that they were funding a bitcoin-related company, OpenCoin.”
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“But the 6-foot-5 Winklevii were unfazed by the latest tumult. Indeed, the brothers said they used the low prices to buy more. They argue that bitcoin will have much further to soar once a broader audience sees its virtues: a unit of exchange that can be moved around the world at the click of a button without requiring any payments to Western Union or American Express.”
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“‘People say it’s a Ponzi scheme, it’s a bubble,’ said Cameron Winklevoss. ‘People really don’t want to take it seriously. At some point that narrative will shift to [how] virtual currencies are here to stay.’ We’re in the early days.”
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“For their part, the Winklevoss twins have used some of their bitcoin to pay for the services of a Ukrainian computer programmer who has worked on the site of their venture capital firm.”
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“In addition to the purchase of bitcoins, they also say they have invested in a bitcoin-related company, but declined to disclose which one.”
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“’It has been four years and it has yet to be discredited as a viable alternative to fiat currency,’ said Tyler Winklevoss. ‘We could be totally wrong, but we are curious to see this play out a lot more.’”
– http://nyti.ms/151cJqg
– http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173772.0
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Dealbook – Bitcoin Gets Ready for its Close-Up:
Reporters Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) and Peter Lattman (@peterlattman) share some new investments made both in Bitcoin and Bitcoin startups. Excerpts of their NY Times Dealbook article:
“Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been many things in a short time: Olympic rowers. Nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg. Characters on ‘The Simpsons.’ Now they can add a new label: bitcoin moguls.”
–
“The Winklevii — as they are popularly known — say they own nearly 1 percent of that, or some $11 million.”
–
“Now mainstream investments in the digital money are starting to emerge. On Thursday, a group of venture capitalists, including Andreessen Horowitz, announced that they were funding a bitcoin-related company, OpenCoin.”
–
“But the 6-foot-5 Winklevii were unfazed by the latest tumult. Indeed, the brothers said they used the low prices to buy more. They argue that bitcoin will have much further to soar once a broader audience sees its virtues: a unit of exchange that can be moved around the world at the click of a button without requiring any payments to Western Union or American Express.”
–
“‘People say it’s a Ponzi scheme, it’s a bubble,’ said Cameron Winklevoss. ‘People really don’t want to take it seriously. At some point that narrative will shift to [how] virtual currencies are here to stay.’ We’re in the early days.”
–
“For their part, the Winklevoss twins have used some of their bitcoin to pay for the services of a Ukrainian computer programmer who has worked on the site of their venture capital firm.”
–
“In addition to the purchase of bitcoins, they also say they have invested in a bitcoin-related company, but declined to disclose which one.”
–
“’It has been four years and it has yet to be discredited as a viable alternative to fiat currency,’ said Tyler Winklevoss. ‘We could be totally wrong, but we are curious to see this play out a lot more.’”
– http://nyti.ms/151cJqg
– http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173772.0
All News -Daily E-mail Subscription – Twitter: @BitcoinNews
Hackers Cause Financial Ruin For Bitcoin UsersHuffington PostHackers Cause Financial Ruin For Bitcoin Users. Bitcoin, a virtual currency that only exists online, has caught the attention of digital bank robbers. Hackers have stolen bitcoins from digita…
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Hackers Cause Financial Ruin For Bitcoin UsersHuffington PostHackers Cause Financial Ruin For Bitcoin Users. Bitcoin, a virtual currency that only exists online, has caught the attention of digital bank robbers. Hackers have stolen bitcoins from digital wallets and hijacked computers to create new bitcoins ... |
The amount of Bitcoin-related media out there has gotten quite large over the past few …
The amount of Bitcoin-related media out there has gotten quite large over the past few years. For over a year now we’re had Bitcoin Magazine, but we also have a growing collection of Bitcoin songs, Bitcoin internet memes, a (unfortunately now defunct) Bitcoin video show and hundreds of Bitcoin guides, articles and books.
Now, we have another kind of media to add to the collection: a half-hour daily podcast. The show, founded by Adam Levine, Paul Russo and Eli Sklar, has already aired three episodes, and has plans to continue producing five episodes per week for at least the next six months. It will cover topics from all parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem – “like Forbes covers money,” Adam Levine explains, and include an educational discussion of some aspect of the Bitcoin technology every day. There will also be a variety of different formats, including the daily audio podcast and a weekly video show aired on YouTube. Altogether, the show has the potential to be a great resource for Bitcoin newbies and more frequent Bitcoin users alike.
The three episodes that are already out can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-episode-1
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-episode-2
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-episode-3
Happy listening!
