If the claim that he's been researching bitcoin for two years is true, I can only assume he must have suffered some sort of head trauma. Someone researching bitcoin for 2 hours could correct all the fallacies in that article.
Translation: "I'm dumb and couldn't understand it, so I made some shit up."
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Have you put the details of the technology in your book?
It's complicated, so I've had to dumb it down a bit.
It's complicated, so I've had to dumb it down a bit.
Translation: "I'm dumb and couldn't understand it, so I made some shit up."
Though a journalist should be competent at gathering and reporting information accurately, it's a legitimate obstacle that Bitcoin isn't easily understood as a complete model even by people of higher-than-average intelligence, even after researching it for hours.
