This Week in Bitcoin: The IRS Targets Coinbase, Venezuela to Mint Its Own Cryptocurrency

Writing about blockchain and bitcoin right now is a little like buying a new computer in the 1990s. The tech was advancing so fast in those days that as soon as you brought the thing home, it was sorely outdated. Similarly, the cryptocurrency world is changing so rapidly at the moment that even before ‘the ink dries’ on one of my posts, some important new development has already surfaced.
Case in point: When Bloomberg ran a particular story last Monday – ‘Bitcoin Is Now Bigger Than Buffett, Boeing and New Zealand’ – bitcoin’s market cap hovered just above $185 billion, making it worth more than the likes of PepsiCo, Boeing and McDonald’s.

This post was published at GoldSeek on Tuesday, 12 December 2017.