“It’s fitting the future of Bitcoins is being debated in the gambling capital of the world. In the sterile setting of a hotel-casino ballroom here, hundreds of people — almost all men — copiously took notes Tuesday on the intricacies of Bitcoin mining and investments in the controversial currency. They cheered the simplicity of Bitcoin while jeering banks and credit-card issuers. ‘(This year), Bitcoin will be the single-biggest sector for venture capital investments,’ Brock Pierce, managing director of Clearstone Global Gaming, said to whoops and hollers. ‘Now, it’s a commodity; soon, it will be a phenomenal currency,’ says James Beshara, CEO of Crowdtilt, a crowd-sourcing mobile platform.”
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