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Countless experts and pundits,  including Chase CEO Jamie Dimon , have proclaimed that Bitcoin is in a massive bubble right now, and it certainly could be. Yet these “experts” fail to consider one possibility that  some in the Bitcoin community  are beginning to suspect:  mass adoption may be imminent. Permanently high plateau First, let’s get something out of the way. Yes, with every bubble there are people who insist that it really isn’t a bubble.  It’s “the new normal” or “a new paradigm.”  Perhaps the most infamous such example is that of Yale economist Irving Fisher. At the height of the 1929 stock market bubble, just before the crash, a jubilant Fisher  proclaimed : “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. Bubbles throughout history History is replete with examples of financial bubbles that popped disastrously. Britain’s  South Sea bubble  came about in...

Charles Bovaird  ,  CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. There are many ways to profit if crypto markets crash.  Shutterstock Recently, a range of analysts have weighed in on whether cryptocurrencies are in a bubble. There is certainly cause for concern,  as the total market capitalization (market cap) of these digital assets has  surged  from less than $18 billion to  nearly $180 billion this year, according to  CoinMarketCap .  However, these currencies have been suffering some  weakness  lately, as many have dropped significantly from their peaks. [Ed note: Investing in cryptocoins or tokens is highly speculative and the market is largely unregulated. Anyone considering it should be prepared to lose their entire investment.] How To Profit Should the crypto markets crash, there are several ways that investors can profit. As fo...

By  Codrut Neagu  on 06/17/2014 Previous editions of Windows allowed users to create ad hoc wireless connections between computers. You could use those connections to create a wireless network between multiple computers or to share the Internet connection that was available on one of them. This can no longer be done in Windows 8.1, at least not using a visual interface and the mouse. However, with the help of the  Command Prompt  and a few commands, you too can turn your Windows 8.1 laptop or hybrid device into a WiFi access point. Here's how: What You Need in Order for This to Work In order to use your Windows 8.1 laptop or hybrid device as an WiFi access point for other devices, it must have at least 2 network cards installed and one of them must be a wireless network card. One of them must be connected to the internet. Setup scenarios we tested and worked great include: One laptop using its Ethernet connection for Internet access and its...

by Katie Rosehill, Demand Media A stationery can be a profitable business. Step   1 Papers and pens, gift wrap and ribbons, cards and notes are all part of what you find in a stationery store. Add invitations, books, gifts and magazines and your store is stocked. Opening a stationery store takes planning, preparation and research. You don't have to be located in a huge shopping mall, but your store does have to have visibility to your potential customers. The founder of the William Ernst Brown brand grew his tiny 400-square-foot stationery store into a nationally recognized brand, according to Arlene R. Barro, the author of "Win Without Competing." Research the competition. While you might be the only stationery store in the shopping mall or strip shopping center, you may not be the only store carrying stationery, cards, pens, pencils and such. Review the types of cards the other stores carry and offer your customers something a little diffe...

April 24, 2014  By  Rabia Chaudry   At 21 I married a man five years older than me.  The second time around, at 31, I married a man five years younger than me.* Eight years into our marriage, it still sends little shock waves through people when I mention this. There are sometimes oooohs and aaahhhs, eyes get bigger and rounder, and I can almost see folks wanting to high five me and slap my husband on the back for biting the bullet and marrying an older, divorced, single mom.  I have, no joke, been asked at least a dozen times how I managed to pull this off. But a decade ago when he proposed to me, I didn’t bounce off the walls. I advised him to speak to his elders and family, which he did. I was mature enough to know that marrying into a South Asian family meant actually marrying the family, and without their blessings there would likely be no blessing in the marriage.  So he dutifully approached his parents, armed with the story of  Khadi...