Topic: Bitcoin in the news - page 2. (Read 2832 times)

Yeah, by the time bitcoins will growing more up than right now and today at zug place on Swiss bitcoin payment become permanent
http://bitcoinist.com/zug-swiss-bitcoin-payment-permanent/
That is mean will much countries that supports, using, adoption to bitcoins and Blockchain technology.
It is great and new technology in the world.

There is not next wave and I have no idea about that, the media notices us now because we are growing and the adoption is consistent in increasing, I like what is happening as it is slowly but consistent unlike abrupt but suddenly we are lost. This is a good time to be confident and be more supportive with bitcoin as they are starting to recognize our forces.

Hmm.. Well, why did the last 'wave of adoption' happen? And who can get hooked this time that wasn't last time?

yah thats great.people are slowly adopting to blockchain technology and people are slowly understanding the meaning of bitcoin transaction and how is done .well i hope in the  next 5 years the bitcoin users will increase by 5 times and with that price of bitcoins would increase to a great  level.

If Bitcoin has all of a sudden made it on the news, that would probably do it more harm than good right now because Bitcoin looks far from being perfectly ready for an explosion in the adoption rate. There is not enough safety cushion in regard to free capacity that would absorb the spike of interest toward Bitcoin if it got in the public eye big time.

Do you really think that because BTC is not always featured in the mainstream media ia the reason why it is not growing in utility? Thats stupid. It is growing but not in the way you think.

Wish i had seen this in 2009 i prob would have jumped into it then and made a fortune ....lol i didnt really follow until around 2011 and didnt really buy any until 2013.  Some people would still say even now we are early adopters, hope that is so. 

Correct,bitcoin is not on the mainstream news. The only effective marketing of bitcoin is through the word of the mouth, that is introducing it to a friend,family members or to some who deals online.But still I am happy despite the lack of exposure to mainstream media, still bitcoin community members are rising.

What do you mean by the people's negative mindset? They do not matter. What matters is overcoming BTC's technical limitations like the bloating of the blockchain and the problem with how to scale it. Maybe another problem is how to grow the markets where BTC is mostly used in like the illegal drugs market and others like illegal firearms.

Besides this Bitcoin is very poor represented in media. At least in main stream media and the situation is the same in the whole world. And beeing presented in media with positive presentation and marketing is to my opinion key issue for Bitcoin to become widely accepted and to break  the "fear" of Bitcoin among simple no so technologicaly educated people.

The supply of new bitcoins to the market is small relative to the amounts of bitcoins mined by now, which means that basically we are already there. And the price did skyrocket before the last halving, though the long term effects of the diminished supply we feel only now when the price is firmly keeping above $700 for over a month already, with the well pronounced tendency of rising even higher.

Wow, this what the community need. Bitcoin has no building, bitcoin has no server, bitcoin is shapeless but everyone is talk about bitcoin. I'm excited.

I actually first knew about bitcoin back in 2009 in the news about a guy who uses four computers to mine bitcoin which back then was not very profitable but since i saw it i was very impressed and wanted to knew about bitcoin a lot more so i started researching and tried to earn some but back then it was not very popular so i stopped for a while and came back a year a go and started working on this forum

I was skeptic too at the beginning (I began using Bitcoin in 2013) because of the limited Bitcoins that can be mined. I'm wondering what would happen if all Bitcoins will ever be mined... Will the price skyrocket or go down? The news always present Bitcoin as being the criminal's currency, which is a false idea. I'm not a criminal and I like Bitcoin for its features.

That's a good collation of all the news videos about Bitcoin. Deep down inside I'm really happy to own Bitcoins and I take great pride in having them. In the video at about 1:10 where Andreas starts talking about "The focus is decentralization and there's nothing to control, shutdown or filter", he's always been right about it and till date it's always been the case. It's good when the media starts reporting positive stuff about Bitcoins, but yes few of them mentioned it as "Unconsitutional" as it goes against the system of the Central Bank. Most of these people have been polluted by the system, and they're puppets of Government control. I'm sure now the question in the media is "Can Bitcoin be the new safe haven?".

I remember the time when I have just heard about bitcoin in the news in 2008. And I remember correctly that that time they were talking about bitcoin that it's some pyramid that will fail soon. So I didn't paid attention to bitcoin to the last year when my boyfriend started to interested in it. And at first I accepted it very sceptic, cause of I still had that imagination that I heard on the news about the pyramid.

I think it's a great idea, I've got a small similar collection: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P_yb9Z7RVZG86aI07TWaUA2mWDU0ZAxMuACo3HAiSBU/edit?usp=sharing

in there somewhere (see the sources), it goes a bit like this

2010 -

Slashdot - A forum reply but still one of the first mentions of bitcoin on a public place.
Irish Times - Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins
LWN.net - Bitcoin: Virtual money created by CPU cycles
Xfin.wordpress - BitCoin: a rube-goldberg machine for buying electricity


2011 -

C-Net - Bitcoin mentioned in a podcast and Buzz out Loud videos.  & Senators target Bitcoin currency, citing drug sales
PC World - Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency?
Forbes - So, That's the End of Bitcoin Then
The NY Times - Speed Bumps on the Road to Virtual Cash
Time - Bitcoins: Does an Internet Currency Mean the Doom of the Dollar?
- Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks
- Report: Police Confuse Bitcoin Miner’s Power Use for Growing Weed
The New Yorker - The Crypto Currency
The Calculating Investor - Why Bitcoin Will Fail as a Currency
Slashdot - Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity



2012 -

Fortune - Bitcoin looks primed for money laundering
Slashdot - Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million
Forbes - Bitcoin Foundation Launches To Drive Bitcoin's Advancement
Wired.com - FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals
Venturebeat.com - Bitcoin value spikes after hacker demands ransom in the currency
 NetworkWorld - Bitcoin: Seven reasons to be wary

2013 -

MS-NBC - The mysterious Bitcoin
 - Could Bitcoin be the currency of the future?
 - The bitcoin — funny money or currency of the future?    
 - Bitcoin: Money of the future?
 - Bitcoin breaks new ground during Senate scrutiny.
The NY Times - A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
Forbes - How You Should Have Spent $100 In 2013 (Hint: Bitcoin)
CNN - The Real Significance of the Bitcoin Boom (and Bust)
 - Why cyber currency Bitcoin is trading at an all-time high (This was at around $40/btc)
C-net - Multiple stories of trojans that can use other's computers to mine btc, btc heists and thefts
 - Much Ado About Bitcoin
The New Yorker - The bitcoin boom
Business Insider - Bitcoin Is A Joke


2014 -

New York Times -Time Inc. Begins Accepting Bitcoin Payments
CNN - Bitcoin: One year on from peak price, what does the future hold?
BusinessWeek - Bitcoin Dreams
MS-NBC - Are bitcoin future money or just a scam?
 - Bitcoin's road to the future.
C-net - Should Bitcoins be banned?
 - Expedia embraces -- and legitimizes – Bitcoin
FTAlphaville - Cult Markets: When the bubble bursts



2015 -

MS-NBC - Why bitcoins are important
 -Wall street fears bitcoin
 - Should we take bitcoin more seriously?
Fortune.com - How Wall Street got into the wild business of Bitcoin
Forbes - Is the world ready for Bitcoin to go mainstream?
Playboy - You'll soon be able to anonymously send people money with ease, and it will be a big deal
American Banker - Why Banks Are Testing Bitcoin's Blockchain (Without Bitcoin)
Yahoo Finance - Why financial firms are investigating bitcoin tech
Nasdaq.com - Is A Blockchain Without Bitcoin Possible Or Practical?
- Bit-bugs: Bitcoin as the New Safe haven
Washington Post - Bitcoin isn’t the future of money
- it’s either a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme
Business Agenda, a major newspaper in the Philippines, - From fantasy currency to financial disruptor
The Guardian - Could blockchain technology solve streaming music’s payment rows?
Fox - Finding Value in Bitcoin
Entrepreneur - What Is the Future of Bitcoin?

2016 -

Money Week - It’s time to buy bitcoin
- Why I’m buying bitcoins
WSJ - Bitcoin catches on with Goldbugs
Reuters - CME, ICE prepare pricing data that could boost bitcoin
NASDAQ - The Five Most Useful Properties of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin: A Significantly Investable Asset
- Why Bitcoin Could Be More Important Than The Internet
Forbes- Is Bitcoin Better Than Gold?
The International Monetary Fund - The Internet of Trust
Reuters - Virtual Safe Haven?
CNBC - Bitcoin gains validity as digital gold after Brexit vote
Huffington Post - CRYPTO CURRENCIES - A TIME TO INVEST?


The first 2 or 3 years are the most mainstream reports I found, the next years have a bit of a bias on their selection but I think it reflects the overall trend seen.

Put a money in bitcoin is good future, but not for your grandkids. I just worried if the supply will become zero.

Blockchain is become have more exposed than bitcoin instead, this technology can bring world better, especially in economic sector, recently some big company, even the govs interesting with this technology.


I doubt, i think even the user population is can't reach over 20% of earth population. But nowadays bitcoin much ogled.

Bitcoin can reach that if bitcoin reaches mainstream and achieves massive adoption which as a result with take the market cap to the sky because a lot of companies and people will adopt and use bitcoin in that case.

Well we ware not fortune teller if can be happen in the future but nothing is impossible with bitcoin just like before that we are no believing in bitcoin that the price will increase with the present price but we are wrong now more people are investing and trusting bitcoin that actually already gaining benefits of the price increase trillion market cap can be happen if more people and more adoption and more stores are actually accepting bitcoin ..