SynCurrency: Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
January 25th, 2015
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a detailed look at how, for all bitcoin’s growing pains, it represents the future of money and global finance: About a half-billion dollars worth of it vanished from an online exchange in Tokyo. A prosecutor in Manhattan arrested the 24-year-old vice chairman of its most prominent trading body on […]
Read more »Fantasy Sports See More Women In Their Future
January 24th, 2015
Via USAToday, interesting commentary on the growth of fantasy sports among women: Shortly after she got hooked on daily fantasy sports a few months ago, Laura Wimer noticed a drastic difference in how she watched NFL games. She watched a lot more games than she previously did. Sometimes she watched several games at once. And […]
Read more »Malaysia Forms A National eSports Organization
January 24th, 2015
Via Daily Dot, a report on one nation’s national focus on eSports: On Jan. 28, one Southeast Asian country will officially recognize esports on the same level as traditional sports like soccer and badminton. The Malaysian government announced the formation of e-Sports Malaysia (eSM) earlier today. The new group is an official organization under the Malaysian […]
Read more »US Fantasy Sports Remain A Gamble
January 17th, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on the growing popularity of this legal online betting niche: Killian Jones watched the lucrative online gaming market emerge as a UK equities analyst in the late 2000s, then decided to try it himself, ploughing his life savings into a start-up offering daily fantasy sports games, a […]
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