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Friday, March 28, 2014

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.