Here's what's in your Prime Interest today:
There's a new Bitcoin
sherriff in town. It's called the Digital Asset Transfer Authority --
or DATA. And it's not just limited to Bitcoins, it will self-govern most
of the actors in the digital currency space, including Ripple. Again,
this is on a purely voluntary basis. With regulators increasingly
cracking down on various crypto-currencies, DATA is attempting to get
ahead of the game -- and craft best practices to interact with
regulators. Bob talks with Trace Mayer, entrepreneur, and Andreas
Antonopoulos, internet security expert, and asks if the new regulatory
authority, DATA, goes against the original purpose of Bitcoins -- namely
anonymity. Then we head to the hills of Virginia's gold belt to see
what takes longer: mining bitcoin or mining gold. Finally Bob duels Mark
Levine on the Snowden affair.