Speed Reads
On Thursday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart offered his advice to busted Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and other businesses getting into the unregulated world of virtual currencies: Go big or go home. By "big," he meant Wall Street–sized, noting the awesome power of banks like Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, the latter of which owns a huge stockpile of yellowcake uranium ("Oh my god! Goldman Sachs is going to have a nuclear weapon before Iran!").
"Once you get in and make yourself a cornerstone of the financial marketplace, there is no limit to what you may accomplish/perpetrate," Stewart said. You've got a long way to go, Bitcoin. --Peter Weber