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Topic: Big press mention - DailyFinance.com & AOL.com Home Page (Read 4720 times)

sr. member
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Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.
I can't believe this whole "Bitcoin is safer than the Euro" meme is still getting traction.  Roll Eyes  Not that I disagree.  Wink

I dont think the Euro will cease to be traded as a currency for a long time, at least in some countries of the EU.
I also dont think bitcoin will cease to be traded, but it may loose much value in the long run and in market crashes for a number of reasons the Euro is safe from experiencing, like being declared illegal in some jurisdictions, having to fade besides a better alternative (bitcoin 2.0?), being hacked all the time (ok bitcoin has not been hacked as a scource code, but it is still thinkable, while the Euro cannot be hacked in any way. How do you want to hack a bill?).

To summarize my unrequested thoughts: Euro kind of save, BTC a fucking rollercoaster ride with some parts of the track missing.
Lets go rollercoaster!

You're right you can't hack a system that's already been hacked, no wait it was a hacked from the moment of it's inception? Or can you? Wait yes you can it's called printing as much of it as you want or forgery or fractional reserve banking or.. 

http://vimeo.com/2244372 

I'm confused Huh
legendary
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Just a complete coincidence (maybe?), but I've noticed the 10 minute EUR/USD chart looks very similar to the daily Bitcoin prices (mtGox).

Interesting...
hero member
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I can't believe this whole "Bitcoin is safer than the Euro" meme is still getting traction.  Roll Eyes  Not that I disagree.  Wink

I am quite certain that Bitcoin will be alive and kicking well past imminent (or eventual) Euro demise.

legendary
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No longer at aol.com...  Sad
legendary
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Bitcoin
A lot of dumb comments wow ....
hero member
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Merit: 500

1) It's highly unlikely that anyone still using AOL will be competent enough to even understand Bitcoin at the point, letalone use it.


That's the correct one. Just look at the comments on the article and you'll understand why lol

Holy hell, I hadn't read the comments. +1000 to "prime" for fighting the good fight but damn these people ignant...
hero member
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The press love to talk about money, all the time.

What's best topic than a new kind of money?
legendary
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I'm I the only one getting the feeling that the (media) train is once again really starting to roll for Bitcoin?
In December and January when Bitcoin was left for dead by the media there was no popular media exposure, then by March we were getting roughly by-weekly exposure. And now it is multiple times every week!
This is great.
legendary
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How would I hack a bill?

Simple. You hack the mind who help make the bill in the first place.  Wink
legendary
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Vile Vixen and Miss Bitcointalk 2021-2023
ok bitcoin has not been hacked as a scource code, but it is still thinkable, while the Euro cannot be hacked in any way. How do you want to hack a bill?

How would I hack a bill? Well, I suppose I could let a bankrupt government print more of them, thereby reducing the value to almost nothing, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon... wait, never mind. Roll Eyes
legendary
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I can't believe this whole "Bitcoin is safer than the Euro" meme is still getting traction.  Roll Eyes  Not that I disagree.  Wink

I dont think the Euro will cease to be traded as a currency for a long time, at least in some countries of the EU.
I also dont think bitcoin will cease to be traded, but it may loose much value in the long run and in market crashes for a number of reasons the Euro is safe from experiencing, like being declared illegal in some jurisdictions, having to fade besides a better alternative (bitcoin 2.0?), being hacked all the time (ok bitcoin has not been hacked as a scource code, but it is still thinkable, while the Euro cannot be hacked in any way. How do you want to hack a bill?).

To summarize my unrequested thoughts: Euro kind of save, BTC a fucking rollercoaster ride with some parts of the track missing.
Lets go rollercoaster!
sr. member
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Merit: 250
I can't believe this whole "Bitcoin is safer than the Euro" meme is still getting traction.  Roll Eyes  Not that I disagree.  Wink

Any mention of Bitcoin as alternative is good.

But current attack on EUR seems to outshine USD in eyes of public Smiley
legendary
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Monero Core Team
What's an aol?  Wink

An analogy: AOL was to the Internet in the past as PayPal is to Bitcoin today.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL

The irony.
hero member
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I can't believe this whole "Bitcoin is safer than the Euro" meme is still getting traction.  Roll Eyes  Not that I disagree.  Wink
sr. member
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Despite the overall solid tone of the article, I felt from it and from recent media a kind of too much blaiming to EUR in contast with USD.

While they both deserve such attitude.

Can you agree?
legendary
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Charlie 'Van Bitcoin' Shrem

1) It's highly unlikely that anyone still using AOL will be competent enough to even understand Bitcoin at the point, letalone use it.


That's the correct one. Just look at the comments on the article and you'll understand why lol

Don't judge DailyFinance readership to their commentators on the website. It's read by many financial intellectuals, professionals, mainstream public.

The overall tone of the article was solid. I think the voice of the story is that Bitcoin has great uses, in a real life concept that applies to the consumer side with economic and financial legitimacy. Just look at the numbers.

I'm really happy that Bitcoin articles over the past few weeks and months. We went from "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin" to:

"The Rise"

  Cool

-Charlie
legendary
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Merit: 1002

1) It's highly unlikely that anyone still using AOL will be competent enough to even understand Bitcoin at the point, letalone use it.


That's the correct one. Just look at the comments on the article and you'll understand why lol
hero member
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What's an aol?  Wink
hero member
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Two ways to look at this...

1) It's highly unlikely that anyone still using AOL will be competent enough to even understand Bitcoin at the point, letalone use it.

or

2) If we've come so far that even AOLers are aware of us, we've come pretty damn far.

Not sure which I'm sticking with just yet...
legendary
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I wonder if one of the billionaire media magnates has bought into bitcoin and is now promoting it  Wink

That's not as far fetched as it may sound Wink
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