It is obvious that retail sales numbers are going to be awful for eternity because they are antiquated reports that fail to adequately capture the changing consumer trend of shopping online.

My experience in dealing with former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff goes way back. On October 30, 2007, Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) paid him $5,000 purportedly as a "campaign contribution.

Fresh off the heels of a California Judge imposing a $6.8 million judgment against Overstock.com

As more and more retailers, such as Overstock and TigerDirect, start accepting the digital currency, it may be time to finally understand what bitcoins are and how to mine some digital coins yourself.

This is absolutely huge news and any retail CEO worth their salt will immediately begin to look into Bitcoin adoption. I hope financial publications that missed the biggest financial story of 2013 continue to mock it with covers of unicorns and waterfalls. It’s the most bullish thing I can imagine.

The adoption of major US-based vendors of the digital currency is trumping the Chinese clamp-down on Bitcoin as first Overstock and now Zynga confirm their adoption of the crypto-currency.