L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen. Solid discussions of this piece on BoingBoing.net, Hacker News, Slashdot and Reddit.
Rob Tercek has a follow up to this piece here. by Jason Calacanis and the LAUNCH team A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untraceable and un-hackable. Folks were using it to buy and sell drugs online, support content they liked and worst of all -- gasp! -- play poker. Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband. I sent the 30 or so producers of my show This Week in Startups out to research the top players, and we did a show on Bitcoin on May 10. After month of research and discovery, we’ve learned the following: 1.
What Are Bitcoins? 1. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. The benefits of a currency like this: Investopedia.com - Your Source For Investing Education. How Return On Equity Can Help You Find Profitable Stocks. It pays to invest in companies that generate profits more efficiently than their rivals.
Return on equity (ROE) can help investors distinguish between companies that are profit creators and those that are profit burners. On the other hand, ROE might not necessarily tell the whole story about a company, and therefore must be used carefully. What Is ROE? By measuring how much earnings a company can generate from assets, ROE offers a gauge of profit-generating efficiency. ROE helps investors determine whether a company is a lean, mean profit machine or an inefficient clunker. To find companies with a competitive advantage, investors can use five-year averages of the ROEs of companies within the same industry. ROE CalculationA company's ROE ratio is calculated by dividing the company's net income by its shareholder equity, or book value. You can find net income on the income statement, but you can also take the sum of the last four quarters worth of earnings.
15 Things I Look at Before Trading a Stock. I recently shared my stock trading analysis template along with my recent moves on the stock market.
Today, I’ll be sharing my list of 15 things I look at before trading stocks. Numbers are obviously a big part of it. However, there are several other considerations before buying a dividend stock: 15 Things To Look at Before Trading #1 Dividend Yield Since I want to build a dividend portfolio, I look at the dividend yield as one of my first criteria. . #2 Dividend Payout Ratio A high dividend yield is good. . #3 Dividend Growth This is definitely the key behind dividend investing: holding the stock long enough to see the dividend grow to a ridiculously high yield. . #4 Sales Growth Another interesting factor is to look at how the company is growing. . #5 Earnings Growth Same here; climbing sales is good, making more money is obviously better.
. #6 P/E Ratio This data really depends on the industry you are looking at. . #7 Trend #8 Company’s Industry #9 Sustainability & Ethics #10 Management Team Google+ Borsa. Rules.