It should come as no surprise that as cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, have risen in value, more hackers are finding ways to acquire it. The…
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OPLIN 4Cast #571: Bitcoin levels up…but will it make my son rich? (Probably not.)
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This past week, my 13-year-old son came home and asked me a question. “Mom, what’s a BitCoin?” I immediately became “Sherlock Holmes Mom.” “Where did…
OPLIN 4cast #446: Blockchain
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You have likely heard of Bitcoins, but may not have heard too much about blockchain, the technology that makes Bitcoins work. Blockchain is very difficult…
Last week, Marc Andreessen, the well-known technology investor and software developer, published an opinion piece (linked below) in the New York Times entitled “Why Bitcoin…
OPLIN 4Cast #231: Digital currency
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A couple of articles and some tweets about Bitcoin came to our attention recently, which led us to do some research into digital currency. Conventional…