The Hot Sheet: Bitcoin and Blockchain Reports

The Hot Sheet: Bitcoin and Blockchain Reports

News | March 8, 2017 By:

It’s been a hectic week for bitcoin and blockchain media coverage, all leading up to Friday’s anticipated announcement on whether Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss will have their bitcoin-based exchange traded fund approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Today’s most intriguing stories:

The Wall Street Journal reports that terrorist use of bitcoin for funding has been wildly exaggerated by various governments:

Coindesk notes that the New Jersey-based Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI) is temporarily backing off bitcoin because it believes the market will react badly to bad news on the ETF.

Quartz says you can spam Andreessen Horowitz partners if you buy their email addresses using bitcoin (don’t worry, they approve).

Bloomberg finds that alt-coins are basking in the reflection of the bitcoin boom:

An optimistic report from the Harvard Business Review on future blockchain applications;