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Topic: 2012-12-28 BitcoinMagazine.com - Common Misconceptions About Bitcoin – A Guide (Read 1844 times)

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Thank you very much for this article.

Finally a summery of al the common Bulls*** where you can point to in the comments of articles.
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Common Misconceptions About Bitcoin – A Guide for Journalists
by Vitalik Buterin

Here are two of the five:

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The Bitcoin price did NOT fall to $0.01 in June 2011. [...] The root cause was a security mishap at a third party service.  Aside from the attacker, no human being was, at any point, willing to sell bitcoins at anything close to $0.01.

Bitcoin is NOT (yet) seeing massive growth in usage to evade trade sanctions in Iran. [...] The media took a single story of an Iranian earning bitcoins by selling music on CoinDL and wrongly extrapolated to a story about Iranians switching to Bitcoin en masse.

 - http://bitcoinmagazine.com/common-misconceptions-about-bitcoin-a-guide-for-journalists/
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