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Topic: 2014-02-11 Bloomberg - The glitch that will kill bitcoin (Read 1719 times)

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MtGox will resume transactions soon. Grin
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"the people who invested in it during a speculative bubble are reluctant to accept losses and still able to prop up the market with their trades."

Well let's hope those people ARE able to prop up the market.
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Both MtGox and Andresen pointed out that bugs were inevitable in a young, experimental product. Bitcoin, however, is already more than that -- the system's market cap reached $14.4 billion at its December 2013 peak.

I'm going to have to side with Mark and Gavin on this one: Bitcoin is indeed young and experimental.  No part of the definitions of young or experimental preclude huge hype and billions of US dollars.

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For outsiders, however, it looks increasingly as though Bitcoin should be viewed as an experiment...

Very good!  You're learning.  Let's review today's lesson; repeat after me:  Bitcoin is an experiment.
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i like it,. i think this is the most important sentence... the first one.... "As the world's first, and most popular, cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has by now suffered every possible setback a payment project could encounter."
if every possible seback is now "done" there will or should be no more bad news in future... at least thats what implied in this sentence...
legendary
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Title should be "The Glitch That Will Help Kill Bitcoin".
Is this a suggestion to Bloomberg? If so, they changed their title.

The URL still reads http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-11/the-glitch-that-will-kill-bitcoin.html so I assume the title at least was like the title of this thread here.
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Also bit time buyers don't buy on exchanges.

And they don't usually make many withdrawals repetitively in a short time. Roll Eyes
legendary
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Wow, they are really stretching to try and make a big deal out of malleability...
I consider the 3 largest exchanges disabling withdrawals a big deal.

Title should be "The Glitch That Will Help Kill Bitcoin".

Withdrawals are still allowed in BTC-E. And volume-wise, it is the biggest exchange.
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hmm. Otoh the 10 largest stock exchanges do that every night. Smiley
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Wow, they are really stretching to try and make a big deal out of malleability...
I consider the 3 largest exchanges disabling withdrawals a big deal.

Title should be "The Glitch That Will Help Kill Bitcoin".
legendary
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The dramatic headline doesn't really match the article.
It will not fail, because I buy all bitcoins of the world for my last Dollar. Ok, two Dollars.
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Big lol @ the headline.  Cheesy
trying to bring more down and want to have some big stock of this bitcoin for another bump  Cheesy
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Big lol @ the headline.  Cheesy
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The dramatic headline doesn't really match the article.
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Wow! The GOX FUD went far on this one... thanks Mark Karpeles...

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