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Mark Rees

Mark Rees
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Mark has spent close to 25 years working and advising in various IT roles for government, retail and healthcare industries. He graduated with a BS in Business Management from the University of Phoenix which taught nothing about bitcoin. He's into hardware and has a thing for Indian motorcycles.

You Say Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value? Twenty-two Reasons to Think Again.

MARKETS Mark Rees -
Let’s agree with what the term “Intrinsic Value” means. For this article, we will use the common Wikipedia entry for the intrinsic theory of value. This is found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_theory_of_valueAn...

Bitcoin Exchange Self-Regulation: What the MPAA Can Teach us

BUSINESS Mark Rees -
Act 1, clean up our act.Let’s face it: When people tell us bitcoin is a scam we come to its defense. Critics often point to the explosion of alternative...

IRS Tax Rulling May Have Just Killed Alt-Coin Mining

BUSINESS Mark Rees -
Presenting the IRS a Real Use-Case Scenario to Teach Them About the Possible Unintended Consequence the Alt-Coin Mining TaxesI just finished my taxes.I feel like I was just punished...

Rise of the Altcoin Wars

BUSINESS Mark Rees -
The Past, Present and Future of AltcoinsBy Mark ReesThe following article illiterates how survival of the fittest and game theory will likely halt bad altcoins from tricking people out...

Open Letter to Washington DC: What Bitcoin Can Teach You About the State Department’s Missing Six Billion Dollars

CULTURE Mark Rees -
Dear Washington DC,It has recently come to my attention that you’ve misplaced another SIX BILLION DOLLARS. This time it was the State Department. Where did it go? The Washington...

Is Bitcoin a Black Swan Event?

CULTURE Mark Rees -
The term “Black Swan Event” describes certain events in history so profoundly unexpected and massive in scale, that they fundamentally changed the course of history. There are good Black...

IRS Changes Course and Declares Bitcoin a Currency

BUSINESS Mark Rees -
In a stunning reversal of intent, the IRS today issued a statement admitting they got it wrong.“After further review, and speaking to our consulting organization led by new Treasury...

Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Why the Credit Card Network is Ready for a Paradigm Shift

BUSINESS Mark Rees -
As a victim of the Target credit card hack, and having to work with the bank to replace the stolen identity, this writer can speak first-hand about thinking twice...

Hold on to Your Bitcoins: Why April 8th 2014 Might be a Defining Moment in Bitcoin History

CULTURE Mark Rees -
Mark your calendars for April 8. It’s been a target day of dread for thousands of companies’ IT departments counting down the days before they cross the “finished” line....

Bitcoin vs Gold

MARKETS Mark Rees -
Bitcoin is often called “Gold 2.0” because they share many of the same traits. As we have magazines dedicated to “head to head” matchups in cars, motorcycles, computer parts,...
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