This Week In Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

As always, Twitter is a great way to check up on each of these exciting breakthrough areas. Just hashtag each of them and get a wealth of information. Some of what was found to be important is below:

Bitcoin

- Marc Andreesen discusses Bitcoin per Techcrunch article here.
- IRS to tax Bitcoin as property, not currency. The Bloomberg story is here.
- Current price of Bitcoin (per Coinbase) is $517.00


3D Printing

- Crain's Chicago Business article on how 3D Printing is revolutionizing surgery. Story here.

Wearable Tech

- Wearable Tech "energizing" battery industry with possible $70 million boost. Recode story here.

Crowdfunding

- Reminder of benefits from crowdfunding not all it's cracked up to be (ex. Facebook purchase of Oculus). Pando article here.

This Week in 3D Printing, Bitcoin, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

It was a busy week in the different industries. An easy way to find out more about these topics is to hashtag them on Twitter. It's great to see the development of the topics continue.

Bitcoin

- Mt. Gox is back in the news "finding" 200,000 bitcoins in an old wallet. The Yahoo! Reuters story is here.

3D Printing

- On the investment side, a client named KDK Options purchased a call option for 3D Systems. The blog post is here.

- HP announced plans to enter the market later on in the year. The Marketwatch story is here.


Crowdfunding

- Crowdfunding is expanding in the EU. The Reuters story is here .

Wearable Tech

- There was a large convention about wearable tech in London. A link to a story on the show is here.

- Google has released its its software to its arsenal to help develop wearable tech items. The Time story can be found here.

KDK Options Buys Call Option on 3D Systems

One of Keane Venture Capital and Consulting's clients; KDK Options; has purchased an April $75.00 call option on 3D Systems. The blog post on the purchase can be found here.

Part of the reason for the purchase was the knowledge gained by reading this blog, particularly the weekly posts on 3D Printing. Hopefully, the trade will work out for them.

** This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. It is only information and opinions given.**

This Week in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Crowdfunding, and Wearable Tech

With all four topics, a good way to get a handle (HA!) on what is going on is to hashtag each one on twitter. Plenty of news and notes are published daily.

Bitcoin

- Per Coinbase, a bitcoin is now worth $639.81.

- Buffet says to "Stay Away" per WSJ article here 


3D Printing
- Combining 3D Printing and Crowdfunding through new 3D Materials story here (per 3ders.org).

- 3D Printing Medical Awesomeness With New Fingers For Young Girl (3Dprint.com story here)

Crowdfunding

- PayPal is now more Crowdfunding Friendly (Ent story here)

Wearable Tech
- Wearables helping the elderly from Wearable World News (story here)

March 2-8 Week In Review (KDK Options, Bullied Comics, more)

Hey everyone

It was another week of growth for companies associated with Keane Venture Capital and Consulting. The following items happened:

- Bullied Comics is in touch with a national anti-bullying organization in regards to partnering for a continued developed solution to bullying. Bullied Comics also made a presentation at Elgin High School in Elgin Illinois over the weekend. Congrats!

If you want more information on Bullied Comics, please email to bulliedcomics@gmail.com or follow on Twitter @bulliedcomics.

- KDK Options closed out a trade in Morgan Stanley (link here)and opened up another with the VIX (link here).

Email any comments, questions, or concerns to kdkoptions@gmail.com.

- Post on the week's activities in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding is available to read here.

You can follow KeaneVCC's Facebook page here, follow @keanevcc, and email at keanevcc@gmail.com.

This week in Bitcoin, 3D Prining, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

Hello all

Bitcoin

- There was no bigger story than that of finding the possible founder of Bitcoin. Newsweek broke the story. The link to the Bloomberg story is here.

- The value of Bitcoin (per Coinbase) is currently $638.60.

3D Printing

- The thinking is that there is no other place to be this week in regards to 3D printing than SXSW in Texas. It can be said at the moment Shapeways is having a fantastic festival with their easy to use platforms.

Wearable Tech

- SXSW is also busy checking out wearable tech.

- Be sure to check #wearabletech for a ridiculous amount of news covering this topic.


Crowdfunding

- Be sure to check #crowdfunding for all things crowdfunding.

KVCC Week In Review (KDK Fund, KDK Options, Bullied Comics, more)

Hey everyone

It was a good week for Keane Venture Capital and Consulting. KDK Options was able to start another trade by purchasing calls of Morgan Stanley (blog link here). Bullied Comics continues to develop and is coming super close to releasing its first comic in print. KDK Fund continues to post its current results and research for its next purchase (link here).  There have been over 2000 page views of the various KVCC and client blog posts!

Thank you for your continued support! If there is a project or process you would like KVCC to assist in, please contact at keanevcc@gmail.com.

- Being grateful regularly puts me in a state of mind that allows me to have a better chance of success when making my next decision.

This week in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding (Mt. Gox, Kickstarter, more)

Bitcoin

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong discusses the Mt. Gox situation in a Tech Crunch article (link here). It is important for the survival of the Bitcoin industry to be out in front on this issue. Everyone in the industry will need to work as one and be extremely transparent with their dealings in the near future.

One problem with the Mt. Gox collapse is the continued use of the word "disappearance" of the bitcoins. The bitcoins did not disappear and are in the control of someone else. It would help the industry a great deal to be able to catch the hackers and at the very least expose their actions.

Wearable Tech

- @wearablenewscom is a reliable handle in the wearable tech sector. Continue to use #wearabletech to see all things wearable being tweeted.

- Passing this GIGAOM article about having success in the wearable tech industry. The link is here.


3D Printing

- There is a monster governmental project to speed up the 3D printing process. The Forbes article link is here. Cincinnati Incorporated is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the project.

 

Crowdfunding

- Kickstarter is close to reaching $1 billion of project funding. With contracts worth 3-5%, the founders are somewhere around 30-50 million dollars richer before expenses.