Wall Street and Silicon Valley Aren’t Investing in Bitcoin, They’re Investing in Bitcoin Business
For years, speculative day-traders have been eagerly awaiting the day that Wall Street cash flows onto their favorite exchange. If a few Wall Street stock traders would come forth and spark the daily volume, maybe the markets would go up instead of down in 2015. When big power-players start placing buy orders, the moon will surely be within the grasp of anyone holding their coins for all that time. MarketWatch recently published an article warning investors to keep bitcoin far off their radar due to security issues within the industry. They also touched on volatility, noting how the....
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Richard Waters, writing in Financial Times, is reporting that Silicon Valley's A-Listers seem to be fast climbing onto the Bitcoin bandwagon. More and more of Silicon Valley's venture capitalists have been queuing up to invest in Bitcoin start-ups. Yesterday, some of Silicon Valley's heavy hitters bought into the $20 Million funding round for Xapo. This list included none less than Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners, Mike Volpi of Index Ventures attracting funding from the deep pockets of Max Levchin, Yuri Milner as well as Jerry Yang, the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!. But this....
A new survey published by the SecondMarket-owned public investment fund, Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), suggests that as the general public learns more about bitcoin, overall optimism about its future financial applications is likely to improve. The survey garnered responses from more than 1,000 individuals, including those from the Wall Street, Silicon Valley and bitcoin communities. The results detail how the respondents first learned about bitcoin and how their view of the technology's potential changed over time. Overall, the findings suggest that, should the experience of these....