Tracker Series

Another Week Of Rough Waters For Bitcoin
April 11, 2014

Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...

How the Bitcoin Tax Will Impact Transactions
March 28, 2014

Over the past week, the IRS deemed bitcoins taxable property, giving critics even more ammo to blast what Warren Buffet has dubbed “a mirage” and a man that Andreessen sort of slighted this week for his criticism of the crypto currency. That said, a small...

Bitcoin Bubble Tracker: A new Blow to Bitcoin … and Buffett!
March 28, 2014

Over the past week, the IRS deemed bitcoins taxable property, giving critics even more ammo to blast what Warren Buffet has dubbed “a mirage” and a man that Andreessen sort of slighted this week for his criticism of the cryptocurrency. That said, a small gun...

Bitcoin Tracker: March 14
March 17, 2014

Bitcoin Tracker | Week 15 What’s the difference between pork bellies and bitcoins? Nothing, says Goldman Sachs. They pooh-pooh the notion of bitcoin as currency and instead classify it as a speculative asset that rises and falls based on the madness of the crowd. The...

Bitcoin Tracker: February 28
March 11, 2014

Bitcoin Tracker | Week 13 Bitcoin’s theme song is clearly “Put on a Happy Face.” In spite of what has turned out to be a humongous blow to the community with the disappearance of Mt. Gox, which has rendered some $400 million, bitcoin-untraceable enthusiasts regarded...

Bitcoin Tracker: February 20
March 11, 2014

Bitcoin Tracker | Week 12 To ignite or not to ignite, that is the question. Well, Market Platform Dynamics Founder David Evans says, well, it actually hasn’t. And to prove it, he created pictures that compared the adoption of mPesa in Kenya and Bitcoin worldwide. Let’s just...

Bitcoin Tracker: March 7
March 10, 2014

Link to live trading on the various markets Follow 93 Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations here Bitcoin Tracker | Week 14 So, the big news of the week is that we now, finally, know the real identify of the inventor of Bitcoin. It turns out that Satoshi Nakamoto...

Millennial Moms, Swag Bags and Millions of Pounds of Mardi Gras Beads… And Other Friday...
March 10, 2014

07 March 2014 There’s so much data influencing the industry today that it can be hard to stay on top of everything. PYMNTS.com’s Friday Factoids are the perfect solution for innovators, entrepreneurs or observers trying to keep up with all the latest information. In today’s...

Controversial
Bitcoin Bubble Tracker: January 24
March 04, 2014

Link to live trading on the various markets Bitcoin Bubble Tracker | Week 8 So, the world’s movers and shakers gathered in that idyllic Swiss enclave known as Davos this past week and agreed on perhaps only one thing:  that bitcoin’s future was far from...