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Bitcoin Tracker: Easy Access Is ‘Easier’ With ATMS & Gift Cards

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The math comes out to one per week. This week, he launched a bitcoin gift card integration with certain top retailers through digital wallet iPayYou.io. Even after years of effort and hundreds of millions in VC capital invested, digital currency continues to have one major weakness: The world of bitcoin is desolate.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Now why, you might ask, would the biggest retailer in the world buy an eCommerce site that was facing a mega cash crunch in December and had to raise a whopping $550M just to keep the lights on? And there are a whole bunch of players that are making it their business to help retailers make an essential part of their POS.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

Barry Ritholtz

And based on the feedback that we hear from companies who are private, the public currency is still very strong. million securities on the fixed income opaque side of the market, using a lot of great systems, a lot of great mathematical mouth, and also couple hundred humans. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

PYMNTS

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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NP: If you’re participating in a market that’s going up, obviously the more you’re participating, whether as the head of a company that has options for stocks, or as an investor, or as the retail person who is placing just the little bit they have on it, then you’re going to benefit from that proportion of upside because you’re in it.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. Actually, as in the color of US currency, Barry, it’s always been green, is my point.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?