Notable bitcoin investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss made headlines last week when they filed an initial registration for a bitcoin ETF. Each of the one million initial shares would represent 0.2 BTC, or a total of approximately $15 million of net asset value at current BTC exchange rates. The planned ETF has been the subject of heavy criticism since the filing, but nearly all of the objections have been related to investing in bitcoin as an asset class, rather than the new instrument introduced by the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust. Upon deeper analysis, it’s clear that a financial product like the …

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Considering a bitcoin mining hardware purchase? Make a more informed decision with our Bitcoin Mining Dashboard. According to reports on bitcointalk.org, Avalon ASIC miner orders from early February have started shipping.   These miners run at over 65 GH/s, so the rapid increase in mining difficulty is not likely to slow down any time soon. The 600 miners in batch two will add an estimated 39 TH/s to the bitcoin network that’s already considered one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Avalon initially estimated a shipping date of April 15th, so these are being delivered one month late. I’m sure most customers are …

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