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Topic: AOL Sucks................Again...........Latest Bitcoin Commentary (Read 952 times)

legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
Mostly I'm amazed that AOL still exists.

They still do, but I wonder if this dude is planning a 51% attack.

sr. member
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I still have my first AOL account which I use for certain things mainly because it is too much of a pain in the ass to change it.

I have Arnold Schwazenegger saying, "You've got mail!"

LOL!

Wink

My $.02.
member
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Mostly I'm amazed that AOL still exists.

I second that!
legendary
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Wow, I just now realized there are probably adults now who wouldn't immediately recognize the "you've got mail" audio clip.
legendary
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In Satoshi I Trust
Mostly I'm amazed that AOL still exists.

lol! thought the same  Grin
newbie
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very interest this analize
legendary
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Mostly I'm amazed that AOL still exists.
sr. member
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I don't understand what AOL has to do with the article.

The article appeared on AOL Finance.

Sorry; should have mentioned that.

Mea Culpa.
legendary
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I don't understand what AOL has to do with the article.
sr. member
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/11/08/bitcoin-popular-china-investors-should-be-wary/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D403190#!slide=41257

From the citation:

"Bitcoin Growing In Value, Popularity In China, But Investors Should Be Careful"

"China now accounts for nearly a third of the daily bitcoin transactions in the world. The virtual currency's popularity in China has contributed to its shooting over $300 in value, but investors shouldn't be rash in buying bitcoins, experts said.

At the end of September, the number of bitcoins traded every day in the Chinese market was 17,500, up 24 percent from three months before and accounting for 30 percent of the world's total transaction, a report from Genesis Block, a New York-based digital currency research group, said recently.

The virtual currency has been gaining traction in China, but the latest surge in demand is widely seen as connected to the acceptance of bitcoins by Baidu Jiasule, a firewall service for websites co-developed by Baidu (BIDU), China's predominant search engine.

By the end of October, on BTC China, the largest Chinese bitcoin trading platform, the price of a bitcoin has grown to around 1,270 yuan (about $209 based on Friday's exchange rates) from 800 yuan early that month, Caixin, a Chinese financial news outlet, reported Thursday. Baidu's prominence led many to speculate that other Chinese companies could follow suit and accept bitcoins as payment.

"This is an extremely important moment," one investor said, if it leads to the acceptance of bitcoins in wider ranges of online payments.

In addition, it could be a marketing ploy Internet companies employ to advertise new products, said Liu Xiao, an analyst with public policy think tank Anbound Consulting. Given that every payment for Jiasule only amounts to a small fraction of a bitcoin, the real impact on the market is negligible.

"Every time the bitcoin market boomed, it was driven by a stunt and not backed by real transactions," Liu said, according to Caixin.

Even so, the Chinese market has become an important driving force behind the virtual currency's increasingly wide use and may top all other similar currencies in terms of transaction volume, the Genesis Block report said.

There are nearly 20 bitcoin trading platforms in China, and investors say they are more prone to hacker attacks than platforms in developed countries. Chinese investors also face potential regulatory issues, since China has no law addressing the trade of bitcoins and their connection with the yuan and with the real economy."

Interesting, eh?

Wink

My $.02.
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