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Innovative ideas can grow into consensus views and missed investment opportunities before our very eyes in a world awash with information. With constant access to the web through our computers, tablets, and smart phones, it's easy for investors to filter out valuable information in an effort to cut through all the noise; but even still, it's possible to catch emerging trends early enough in their life cycles by holding to a homework rule: When an idea comes up over and over again - especially when it's validated by experienced investors who command and influence vast sums of capital - it's not necessarily time to buy, but it's time to do your homework.
Like the early Web, Bitcoin is an open platform that no one owns, and on top of which anyone can build without having to get anyone else's permission. And just like the early Web, success requires investors, entrepreneurs, and developers to build out the infrastructure and applications that will make it useful to average users.
Dow Jones: The bitcoins Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2015 and/or its affiliates.
The next big step for bitcoin comes in early 2016, when the rate of bitcoin emission drops by half, to 1500 a day. That will reduce the pressure on the price from emission, but will also slash the incomes of bitcoin miners, who collectively maintain the bitcoin network. The mining industry currently earns about $1m a year; with a stable bitcoin price it will earn about $500k a year starting in 2016. Bitcoin VC investors assumed the price bitcoin would continue to skyrocket, which if true would keep mining industry income stable. When reality hits in 2016 and mining income halves, a lot of miners are going to close up shop and drop out. Mining will be consolidated by a handful of high-efficiency miners.
Innovative ideas can grow into consensus views and missed investment opportunities before our very eyes in a world awash with information. With constant access to the web through our computers, tablets, and smart phones, it's easy for investors to filter out valuable information in an effort to cut through all the noise; but even still, it's possible to catch emerging trends early enough in their life cycles by holding to a homework rule: When an idea comes up over and over again - especially when it's validated by experienced investors who command and influence vast sums of capital - it's not necessarily time to buy, but it's time to do your homework.
Like the early Web, Bitcoin is an open platform that no one owns, and on top of which anyone can build without having to get anyone else's permission. And just like the early Web, success requires investors, entrepreneurs, and developers to build out the infrastructure and applications that will make it useful to average users.
Dow Jones: The bitcoins Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2015 and/or its affiliates.
The next big step for bitcoin comes in early 2016, when the rate of bitcoin emission drops by half, to 1500 a day. That will reduce the pressure on the price from emission, but will also slash the incomes of bitcoin miners, who collectively maintain the bitcoin network. The mining industry currently earns about $1m a year; with a stable bitcoin price it will earn about $500k a year starting in 2016. Bitcoin VC investors assumed the price bitcoin would continue to skyrocket, which if true would keep mining industry income stable. When reality hits in 2016 and mining income halves, a lot of miners are going to close up shop and drop out. Mining will be consolidated by a handful of high-efficiency miners.