Yet another bit on bitcoin: is it a semi closed-end index fund on electricity and hardware?

Win-Vector Blog 2013-12-20

Summary:

Bitcoin continues to surge in buzz and price (194,993 coin transfer, US Senate hearings and astronomical price and total capitalization). This gets me to thinking: what in finance terms is Bitcoin? It claims aspire to be a currency, but what is it actually behaving like? To put my cards on the table: I am not […]

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Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

12/20/2013, 07:12

Date published:

11/22/2013, 15:28