ISIS Terrorist Group Embraces Bitcoin – ValueWalk Premium
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08Jul2014

ISIS Terrorist Group Embraces Bitcoin

Bitcoin has found a new champion other than the globe-trotting, party loving Winklivoss brothers. This champion of the digital monetary storage and transfer methodology acts in a little more aggressive manner than the typical activist investor hedge fund and is a little more concerning on the world stage as well.


ISIS finds Bitcoin attractive
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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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