Tag: Alternative Currency

Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets:

Bitcoin’s record highs and the ensuring surge in hacking attempts and thefts may be grabbing headlines. However, beneath the chaos, Silicon Valley’s best-known venture firms are finally starting to make real bets around the crypto-currency.… Continued

The Bitcoin surge is a crisis of faith:

Simultaneously [with the Cyprus crisis], the value of BitCoin shot through the roof.Why?

Is it because BitCoin is well designed as a replacement for the currency that currently operates enormous economies in seventeen industrialized nations?… Continued