SynCurrency: Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets
May 5th, 2013
Via TechCrunch, a report on Bitcoin and other new crypto-currencies like Ripple: 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. The price of a single bitcoin had more […]
Read more »SynCurrency: Bitcoin – A Disruptive Technology
May 5th, 2013
Via Forbes, an interesting article on Bitcoins: A financial network is a technological platform that people build businesses on top of. And the traditional banking and credit card networks are closed platforms. If you want to build an e-commerce site, a payment network like Paypal, or any other service that deals in dollars, you need […]
Read more »SynCurrency: An Entrepreneur’s Take On Bitcoin
May 5th, 2013
Via Wired, an interesting look at Bitcoin by Dan Kaminsky, a noted internet security expert: Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker, who has […]
Read more »Zynga’s Turnaround Depends On Online Gambling
May 3rd, 2013
Via ValueWalk, a report on Zynga’s future potential should H2 Gambling Capital’s call that the U.S. real-money Internet gambling market could rise to $7.4 billion by 2017 as several states are passing legislation to support online gambling prove accurate: Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) sales have been faltering since other social gamers began flocking towards Facebook Inc. Last […]
Read more »First U.S. Legal Online Poker Site Launched In Nevada
May 3rd, 2013
Via RGJ, a report on America’s first internet-gaming initiative: Nevada will lead the nation today into the world of legal, real-money Internet gambling with the launch of a Las Vegas-based online poker site. UltimatePoker.com will deal the first hand at 9 a.m. to in-state gamblers in what its operators, as well as industry observers, see […]
Read more »Will Video Games Go Vegas?
April 20th, 2013
Via VegasSeven, a very interesting article on gaming’s next move as slots lose the youth market: “Gambling,” said John Acres at last year’s Global Gaming Expo, “is dead.” For support, the man who has been in the casino business for more than 30 years and invented the modern players-club card cited the plummeting appeal of […]
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