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Congratulations to Poojan Kumar, Satyam Vaghani and the rest of the PernixData team for raising a great Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins.

It’s no secret that that I see the opportunity for Bitcoin to disrupt multi-billion-dollar markets and dramatically cut transaction costs for people around the world.

For decades the leading network companies have been tightly coupling their software to complex, custom-built chips.

FinCEN, the department of the Treasury responsible for fighting financial crimes has already issued guidance on how it views Bitcoin.

Right now, more than 80% of Bitcoin volume is in the USD market. And many of the pundits commenting on Bitcoin, both positively and negatively, are in the US.

The LA Times and Chicago Tribune are for sale. BarryDiller recently announced that buying Newsweek was a mistake.

What does “big data” mean to you? When most of us hear the term, we immediately think about mainstream use cases that leverage smarter data sets to assist companies in making better decisions that optimize business operations, improve enterprise application …

For there to be a deep and liquid exchange marketplace in Bitcoin, the primary Bitcoin exchange needs to be robust and performant, with millisecond trade execution timeframes under heavy volume.

Supercell raised $130M at a $770M valuation and got a lot of press for it recently. It is well on its way to being a billion dollar game company.

This week, the price of Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $266 and then a “flash crash” brought the price tumbling down to $105.