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The Revolution Will be Publicly Traded
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Catherine D. Wood, CEO of ARK Investment Management, has shown that investors looking to benefit from the tech revolution can make big gains in public markets.

An Evolving Asset Class: The Future of Cryptocurrencies
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Crypto assets have endured long enough to raise some serious questions. Can regulators resolve their status as securities, commodities, property, or currency?

Cryptocurrency Derivatives and the Future of Bitcoin
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The public perception of bitcoin has shifted, and investors need to keep track of the global sentiment surrounding cryptocurrencies and other cryptoassets.

Disrupting the Disruption: Will Bitcoin be Hijacked by Wall Street?

Is the blockchain to the financial industry what Uber is to the taxi industry, Tesla to the car industry, or Apple to the watch industry? Is it disruptive or sustaining?

Bitcoin: It Is More Important Than You Think
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Bitcoin's value is not as a currency but as a product of its unique technologies and their potential future applications.

A Bitcoin Adventure: How to Buy and Sell Crypto-Currencies

User experience needs to improve, but the moving parts of the Bitcoin future are all in place. What’s left to determine is if enough people will use them.

Insights from Digital Economies: The Efficient Market Hypothesis “Is Plainly False”
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Yanis Varoufakis tests the efficient market hypothesis with online economies, and also finds “vestiges of pre-capitalist organization” at work in modern markets.

Day 3 Recap: Distressed Assets and Digital Economies (Video)
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Ron Rimkus, CFA, and Jason Voss, CFA, discuss highlights from the third day of the 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference.

A Brief History of Electronic Currency: Bitcoins Shouldn’t Surprise You
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Intrigue surrounding online currency is nothing new: Take a look at the exploitation, investment fraud, and government crackdowns in the virtual currencies that came before Bitcoin.

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