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Summary of MPEx Stocks & Funds January 2015

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Monthly statements from stocks listed at the MPEx exchange have been released for January. Official reports are available at Trilema. Here are some highlights, with assets listed in order of market cap1 :

MPEx (S.MPOE, market cap 403,020) reported a net profit of 520 btc, with 500 btc coming from new account fees. The MPEx exchange has seen a slight uptrend in volume over the past several months, the January volume was the highest since April of last year. Continue reading →

  1. Market cap data was calculated on 10 February 2015, current data is available at www.btcalpha.com/mpex/stocks/ ↩

Pierre Omidyar also started a Qntra back in October. His failed.

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We find via Conde Nast's1 Wired that something something Racket something something soft launch something something closed. Their glee is hardly concealed, but it will be short lived. Everyone in your school failing the same exam you marginally passed once does not really mean all that much ; there's other schools out there. The better parts : Continue reading →

  1. Also owners of Reddit, and generally a stronghold of all that is evil in the world. Check out The Awl's recent leak of their upcoming three-rule-binder for office drones to get an idea. Golden bits in there like

    Please. WIRED is no longer a pirate ship. It's the home of world-changing journalism.

    and

    And it's increasingly a place where we, and our New York colleagues and owners, host artists, founders, CEOs, and advertisers.

    Obama's "close down the world, mulatto in chief's coming for a visit" is slowly but surely trickling down through the entire stack of utterly corrupt, government-sponsored, government-backed, QE-fed leeches and aparatchicks. It's arrived to the point where Conde Nast is actually kicking out the last remaining workhorses in the stables to make room for Barnum. ↩

Summary of MPEx Stocks and Funds December 2014

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Monthly statements from stocks listed at the MPEx exchange have been released for December. Official reports are available at Trilema. Here are some highlights:

MPEx (S.MPOE) continued to derive most (93.6%) of its revenue from new account sign-ups. While the large amount of income from sign-ups represents the vast majority of the income, the company would still be profitable without these one-time payments; the December expenses only amounted to 59% of the revenue from trading fees. The company reported a total profit of 647.8 btc. This represents the highest profit reported by the company since August of 2013. Continue reading →

Bitnplay Aims To Raise 400 BTC For A Bitcoin Based Poker Site

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Seals with Clubs, Breakout Gaming, Michael Mizrachi's Get Lucky Poker and to a lesser extent NXT's Pangea Poker are just some of the names attempting to establish themselves as Bitcoin based online poker venues. Into this mix comes a new site named Bitnplay who hope that their Bitcoin only online poker site will be enough to entice players away from competitors when they launch February 1st 2015. Continue reading →

CFTC Requests Public Comment LedgerX

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The CFTC, known for stating but never demonstrating its authority over Bitcoin, is asking for public comment on related applications submitted by LedgerX in its attempt to register as a swap execution facility and a derivatives clearing organisation. Comments must be submitted on or before January 30th 2015.

LedgerX, who's investors include Google Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Crypto Currency Partners and Eric Kagan, hopes to list physically settled digital currency option contracts in 2015.

Public comments are available to read and submit here.

Breakout Gaming ICO Concludes

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The Breakout Gaming Initial Coin Offerring has concluded with a total of 387.65244039 BTC being raised. The funds have since moved from 33Bghpzm4pgbSRgnqS63ZBf6dnSjbGc6Sf, having been split up and sent to various addresses. Following the sale, Breakout Gaming's CEO Billy Chung and head of marketing Gian Perroni spoke to CoinDesk1 and used it as an opportunity to misrepresent the facts surrounding the sale/scam. Continue reading →

  1. Despite Qntra's mention, CoinDesk only linked to us via a Google cache page. LOL ↩