Winklevoss Twins: The Next Big Thing Is Bitcoin, Not Facebook

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Mark Melin
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After extracting $65 million from Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) in the courts for their disputed involvement in the early stage development of the firm with founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have “discovered” the next really big thing that will eclipse Facebook: Bitcoin. 2014 is the year Wall Street takes on Bitcoin “Bitcoin is a protocol for decentralization, so you could build a decentralized company on top of it, a stock market. It’s an internet of ownership, so it’s not quite a direct comparison,” Tyler Winklevoss said in an interview published in the Guardian.  2014 is the year Wall Street…

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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.