SynCurrency: The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road
August 18th, 2013
Courtesy of Forbes, an interesting article on The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road: An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn’t trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship, I offer to meet him at an […]
Read more »SynCurrency: Prepare For The Coming Deluge Of Digital Currencies
August 12th, 2013
Via Quartz, an interesting look at the coming deluge of digital currencies—and meet the people who would control them: Paying for a pint with Bitcoin at the Pembury Tavern in east London. The Pembury Tavern sits in a modest 19th-century building at the corner of five roads in Hackney, a relatively poor neighborhood in east London. […]
Read more »SynCurrency: What Is Bitcoin Really Worth?
August 11th, 2013
Via ReadWrite.com, an interesting article on the value of a bitcoin: We’ve all got at least a passing understanding of Bitcoin, that digital crypto-currency that can’t be regulated by any bank or government (at least for now). But here’s a trickier question: what’s a bitcoin actually worth? Like gold, Bitcoin derives its value from scarcity. […]
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