Some odds and ends of BTC today:
- Chris Dixon Plans On Investing In More Bitcoin Startups, Says More Entrepreneurs Are Getting Involved from TechCrunch (good luck… how many will be able to get fully funded before FinCEN hammer comes down?)
- IAm Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile, AMA from Reddit (briefly mentions bitcoin)
- Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin by Miers et. al. (the newly published academic paper behind the concept)
- Bitcoin believers hoping their faith will pay off from Boston Globe (how many are betting the farm?)
- Living On Bitcoin For A Week: The Journey Begins by Kashmir Hill (reminds me of DotComGuy from back in 2000 as well as the more recent dude, Benjamin Robbins, who only used the Samsung Note this past year and didn’t touch a laptop or tablet during that time)
- BitCoin Is Gold 2.0: Venture Capitalist from CNBC
- One Bitcoin by the numbers: Is there still profit to be made? from ExtremeTech (the CPU is irrelevant, you could use a single core chip from 10 years ago without impacting performance)
- E-Sports League Stuffed Bitcoin Mining Code Inside Client Software from Slashdot (doubt this is the first or last time this will occur)
- Digital cash replacement from Royal Canadian Mint in the works from Toronto Star (one of the criticisms of cryptocurrencies is that they lack any “inherent” value — what then are these digitized money substitutes? if you do not think they are valuable, feel free to send them to me… See also: The value of cryptocurrencies)