Bitcoin press hits, notable sources - page 19.

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Quote from: S3052 on January 07, 2012, 11:22:24 AM

Not sure if this is treated like a news and I let you decide if its relevant, here a recent article from Friday:

http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2012/01/breakout-in-the-bitcoin-race/

Nice Article. Noticed only at the end that its by S3052. On one hand it's accurate on the other hand.. he is a bit biased....
if it recruits a million users.. who cares

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https://bitmynt.no

Seven pages(!) in today's Dagens Næringsliv, the largest financial newspaper in Norway. The journalist has done good research and even visited the European Bitcoin conference in Prague. Very good article. Paper only, unfortunately. One of five headlines on the front page.

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Not sure if this is treated like a news and I let you decide if its relevant, here a recent article from Friday:

http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2012/01/breakout-in-the-bitcoin-race/

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Well this isn't exactly a press hit - but worth noting here anyway I think.

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The First Bitcoin Vending Machine Transaction

GoWest
2012-01-06

http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2012/01/first-bitcoin-vending-machine.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pDOcLros-w0#!

" Stuart W. Card, PhD of Critical Technologies Inc. made the first ever purchase (a bag of popcorn) from a vending machine using a QRcode and a smartphone Bitcoin wallet, in the laboratory of Upstate Networks Incorporated (developers of BTCVend [tm] and DroidVend [tm])."

Discussion thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-vending-machine-video-awesome-56993

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BitMit.net Addresses the Need for a Bitcoin Oriented Auction Site

Kit Dotson
2012-01-05

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/01/05/bitmit-net-addresses-the-need-for-a-bitcoin-oriented-auction-site/

"A new Internet auction house that the developers expect should mimic eBay with bitcoins has cropped up and it looks like business is growing."

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Quote from: molecular on January 04, 2012, 07:54:16 PM

This is notable here, because the author is our beloved julz Wink

http://bitcoinmedia.com/the-effs-own-chilling-breeze/

"BTC is not a crime"

That's unfair! but thanks

There are so many better articles from the Bitcoin community that don't get a mention here because they don't quite fit the intent of this thread.

One of the criteria I usually use is that if the audience for an article is primarily outside the existing bitcoin community - it's worth posting here.. but it's often not clear anyway.

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How I became a Bitcoin trader

2012-01-04
Matthew DeBord

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2012/01/04/4168/how-i-became-bitcoin-trader/

"I suppose I could call this "Bitcoin Challenge" to parallel the "Bike Challenge" I'm also currently engaged in. "
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"I welcome anyone who wants to pick this strategy apart to do so because I have no idea what I'm doing...for now!"

molecular

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This is notable here, because the author is our beloved julz Wink

http://bitcoinmedia.com/the-effs-own-chilling-breeze/

"BTC is not a crime"

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Quote from: julz on January 02, 2012, 08:37:31 PM

It's an oblique reference only.. but as far as I know this is the first acknowledgement from AMD of the Bitcoin mining phenomenon which is for now at least, dominated by their products.

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AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 Graphics

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/7000/7970/Pages/radeon-7970.aspx

"Fold and mine faster than ever with AMD App Acceleration powered by the unprecedented 28nm GCN Architecture."

Wow, that's actually amazing.

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Quote from: paraipan on January 02, 2012, 10:01:19 PM

Quote from: julz on January 02, 2012, 08:37:31 PM

It's an oblique reference only.. but as far as I know this is the first acknowledgement from AMD of the Bitcoin mining phenomenon which is for now at least, dominated by their products.

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AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 Graphics

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/7000/7970/Pages/radeon-7970.aspx

"Fold and mine faster than ever with AMD App Acceleration powered by the unprecedented 28nm GCN Architecture."

lol, nice one julz, kudos for finding that one

Thank reddit's /r/Bitcoin for that one.
Thanks to all for kind comments regarding my continued obsession with posting things here!

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Quote from: julz on January 02, 2012, 08:37:31 PM

It's an oblique reference only.. but as far as I know this is the first acknowledgement from AMD of the Bitcoin mining phenomenon which is for now at least, dominated by their products.

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AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 Graphics

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/7000/7970/Pages/radeon-7970.aspx

"Fold and mine faster than ever with AMD App Acceleration powered by the unprecedented 28nm GCN Architecture."

lol, nice one julz, kudos for finding that one

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It's an oblique reference only.. but as far as I know this is the first acknowledgement from AMD of the Bitcoin mining phenomenon which is for now at least, dominated by their products.

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AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 Graphics

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/7000/7970/Pages/radeon-7970.aspx

"Fold and mine faster than ever with AMD App Acceleration powered by the unprecedented 28nm GCN Architecture."

discussion thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/we-are-important-amd-acknowledges-mining-56406

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Changing dynamics of financial crime in the digital era

2012-01-02
Jeroen de Bel

http://www.innopay.com/content/changing-dynamics-financial-crime-digital-era

"In America concerns have been raised in the last year over Bitcoin, a decentralized, peer-to-peer network that can be used for making anonymous payments. US Senator Schumer called Bitcoin ‘a system for online money laundering and drug financing’."

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Quote from: julz on January 01, 2012, 08:55:55 PM

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Disrupting Banking

Simon Dixon speaking at the European Bitcoin conference - Nov 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oeMsfm5D5s

discussion: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/eurobit-simon-dixon-why-is-it-so-hard-to-disrupt-banking-56361

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Hyperinflation in Bitcoinland

2012-01-01
Matías Vernengo
(Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah)

http://nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html

" In my view Nakamoto is the intelligent version of Madoff. He got away with the dollars and dumped the bitcoins."

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Quote from: genjix on January 02, 2012, 02:53:12 AM

That talk was maybe the worst of the entire conference and he had no idea what he was talking about.

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... which is why I'm against the whole 'free' movement of making everything free, because we need to employ those people aren't entrepeneurs and innovators to create some kind of sustainability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8oeMsfm5D5s#t=533s

The issue is not price, but freedom.

I elaborate more on this here.

His talk had nothing to do with bitcoin and was totally valueless.

He did manage to throw in the word bitcoin a few times , probably cause it said somewhere on his computer "say bitcoin at least 3 times"

But it was somewhat interesting in parts.He mentioned money as debt and if you really want to learn about that look for "Money as debt" series on Youtube.

This Lecture and to some extent David Birchs lecture are not exactly about bitcoin but about Economy,Business,Psycology of the consumers etc... all which have an effect on the future of bitcoin.

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That talk was maybe the worst of the entire conference and he had no idea what he was talking about.

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... which is why I'm against the whole 'free' movement of making everything free, because we need to employ those people aren't entrepeneurs and innovators to create some kind of sustainability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8oeMsfm5D5s#t=533s

The issue is not price, but freedom.

I elaborate more on this here.

His talk had nothing to do with bitcoin and was totally valueless.

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Disrupting Banking

Simon Dixon speaking at the European Bitcoin conference - Nov 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oeMsfm5D5s

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If you read the header, that ZeroHedge post was a guest post from Brandon Smith at alt-market.com.

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'Tyler Durden' at zerohedge apparently didn't get the news that Bitcoin is alive and kicking. He's not a fan anyway.
Edit: It's clear Tyler Durden is just an alias - but apparently it's a pseudonym for several writers
(thanks to Isosceles for pointing out that in this case it's Brandon Smith at alt-market: http://www.alt-market.com/articles/438-the-economic-solutions-of-vampires . Don't know how I missed that.)
The zerohedge site appears to be quite influential: alexa rank 1,820 rank in US 830.

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Guest Post: The Economic Solutions Of Vampires

'Tyler Durden'
2011-12-23

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-economic-solutions-vampires

The suggestion that we can solve our current financial despair with the formation of a whole new currency, or a global currency, is like suggesting to a slave that he would be much more free with a shinier set of chains. Any solution that purports to undo the crisis by doing more of the same was probably devised by an economic vampire.

This includes digital currencies like the failed “Bitcoin”, which swagger about in the classy looking threads of technology and diversity while flashing us impromptu peace signs. Digital currencies are a Star Trek theme park distraction, and just like any paper fiat currency, they make promises they cannot keep. Any trade system that depends upon good faith in ones and zeros traveling across a network of machines that can be hacked or rendered useless by collapse is doomed. We have already tasted the danger of digital through the debauchery of credit cards. Why tempt fate even further?

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