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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Japan has clamped down on them, with complaints, naturally, that regulations make it too hard for startups to operate.

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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Particularly, 10 years ago, this is a new startup or just in the very early days of “robo-advisors.” And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. And it’s something that, as a tech startup and as an online digital brand, we think very much about.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. And that’s sort of the math. RITHOLTZ: Right.