From investment newsletter Money Morning
Bitcoins: An Online Currency You Can Trade Like a Stock
June 16
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning
http://moneymorning.com/2011/06/16/bitcoins-an-online-currency-you-can-trade-like-a-stock/
Topic: Bitcoin press hits, notable sources - page 68. (Read 430922 times)
stream.aljazeera.com had a good talk yesterday. http://stream.aljazeera.com/episode/6630. Bitcoin discussion starts at 24:40. Definitely positive tones all around and I think Jerry Brito does a good job in talking for bitcoin.
I convinced some OWNI journalists to have a deeper look into bitcoin. OWNI is one of the most popular news website on the French speaking web.
Unfortunately, the author of "De la révolution monétaire au Ponzi 2.0" has not been doing his homework and made several mistakes… on which he based his conclusions that Bitcoin is a Ponzi.
Grrr.
I convinced some OWNI journalists to have a deeper look into bitcoin. OWNI is one of the most popular news website on the French speaking web.
Now, they have plenty of articles about bitcoin: http://owni.fr/tag/bitcoin/
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Now, they have plenty of articles about bitcoin: http://owni.fr/tag/bitcoin/
If you want to thanks me for my lobbying work, donations are welcome on 139JxXLqvUzh77x3x49nbLLUTMgopfJE3k
Man says he lost $500,000 in virtual currency heist
Digital coins: As discreet as cash – and more vulnerable
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/16/bitcoin_theft_claims/
Digital coins: As discreet as cash – and more vulnerable
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/16/bitcoin_theft_claims/
I was a young teenager at the time; but I was really excited when windows 95 came out. I imagine the DOS -> Windows transition had a lot of people smiling as well.
Et tu Brute? DOS to which Windows? 3.1? If you were still using DOS when 95 came out you must have been living in a special cave where no Amiga, Mac, by then even Linux existed for years (or you had no friends and whatever dad bought for work was the universe, no offense). Those systems were out for up to 11 years earlier and in various ways still/already superior. 95 was a special horror in many ways but this isn't the place for that (woe onto support). 3.1 even more so (extreme productivity loss through massive slowdown and instability compared to DOS). If you do mean 1.0, *facepalm*
Nesico, how about shutting your pie-hole.
You obviously don't know jack about how computing was at that time, or you'd just 'eff off.
Yeah, I'm serious.
I was a young teenager at the time; but I was really excited when windows 95 came out. I imagine the DOS -> Windows transition had a lot of people smiling as well.
Et tu Brute? DOS to which Windows? 3.1? If you were still using DOS when 95 came out you must have been living in a special cave where no Amiga, Mac, by then even Linux existed for years (or you had no friends and whatever dad bought for work was the universe, no offense). Those systems were out for up to 11 years earlier and in various ways still/already superior. 95 was a special horror in many ways but this isn't the place for that (woe onto support). 3.1 even more so (extreme productivity loss through massive slowdown and instability compared to DOS). If you do mean 1.0, *facepalm*
Bruce Wagner is the Henry Blodget of Bitcoin:
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http://www.observer.com/2011/06/bit-omoney-whos-behind-the-bitcoin-bubble/
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http://www.observer.com/2011/06/bit-omoney-whos-behind-the-bitcoin-bubble/
I LOLed when this said: "The last time he’d been this excited was when Windows came out."
That's just so wrong on so many levels. Does the Observer not care which version, or is Bruce rightfully assuming his target audience to be the average Joe who thinks IE6 is 'The Internet'? And if we look at the statement itself, if you were excited when Windows came out you were either mental (1.0), or working for Microsoft marketing (95). Or you are well aware of what Microsoft were/are doing and represent but you have no moral fiber and are trying to drive up prices with less than subtle Microsoft stock parallels.
I must admit I'm fairly new to all of this and Bruce seemed like an OK guy when I first saw his show (with Plato's cross country trip), but this and the ponzi talk he gave on the freedom radio show puts a big dent in that.
I was a young teenager at the time; but I was really excited when windows 95 came out. I imagine the DOS -> Windows transition had a lot of people smiling as well.
Bitcoin exchanges offer anti- money-laundering aid - from ForEx.com: A good article, and it's on a ForEx website, good exposure to lots of people with tons of money to invest... 
Ars Technica about the stolen 25k BTC:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-the-decentralized-virtual-currencyrisky-currency-500000-bitcoin-heist-raises-questions.ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-the-decentralized-virtual-currencyrisky-currency-500000-bitcoin-heist-raises-questions.ars
This is coming in a little late, but...
Bitcoin was mentioned on episode 680 of The Survival Podcast (around the 52 minute mark). He specifically asked for someone who is involved with Bitcoin to come on the show and do an interview. If that's you, go here.
Bitcoin was mentioned on episode 680 of The Survival Podcast (around the 52 minute mark). He specifically asked for someone who is involved with Bitcoin to come on the show and do an interview. If that's you, go here.
Bruce Wagner is the Henry Blodget of Bitcoin:
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http://www.observer.com/2011/06/bit-omoney-whos-behind-the-bitcoin-bubble/
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http://www.observer.com/2011/06/bit-omoney-whos-behind-the-bitcoin-bubble/
I LOLed when this said: "The last time he’d been this excited was when Windows came out."
That's just so wrong on so many levels. Does the Observer not care which version, or is Bruce rightfully assuming his target audience to be the average Joe who thinks IE6 is 'The Internet'? And if we look at the statement itself, if you were excited when Windows came out you were either mental (1.0), or working for Microsoft marketing (95). Or you are well aware of what Microsoft were/are doing and represent but you have no moral fiber and are trying to drive up prices with less than subtle Microsoft stock parallels.
I must admit I'm fairly new to all of this and Bruce seemed like an OK guy when I first saw his show (with Plato's cross country trip), but this and the ponzi talk he gave on the freedom radio show puts a big dent in that.
Just a heads up, not actually a press hit (yet).
Listening to the Planet Money podcast this morning, they mentioned an upcoming episode on Bitcoin. Might be good.
Listening to the Planet Money podcast this morning, they mentioned an upcoming episode on Bitcoin. Might be good.
its could be cool to see BTC highlight/suggestion/analysis from someone famous/respected in CC, like BS or WC.
http://nerdr.com/shutting-down-bitcoin-really-taking-down-the-bitcoin-network
more "sell,crash" topics coming.
oh, and don't forget the traditional floods
more "sell,crash" topics coming.
oh, and don't forget the traditional floods
This interview of Bruce Wagner is absolutely fantastic (warning: it is long).
It's also very one sided IMHO, I couldn't help thinking 'ponzi scheme!' while watching this. Bruce is almost exclusively focused on the (expected) appreciating value instead of utility and although Stefan mentions they're also going to talk about the downsides later on that never happens (don't you just hate when people state they'll come back to something later and they invariably don't?). Bruce also seems quite distracted in places, maybe he was watching the appreciation not happening?
We really need more balanced evangelism, the Bitcoin economy is helped a lot more by slowly and steadily growing with awareness of its weaknesses than by exponential hysteria causing a bubble that will wreck the whole thing when it comes crashing down.
Bruce Wagner is the Henry Blodget of Bitcoin:
“It’s a bubble, but it’s an unbreakable bubble, one that is just going to keep growing and growing and growing,” he said. He had predicted Bitcoins would be going for $10 each by the end of May; the price hit $9.999 on June 1. He now says it will hit $100 by the end of the month and $10,000 within one year. That nutty-sounding forecasting recalls dot-com bubble boy analyst Henry Blodget’s famous 1998 prediction that Amazon’s pre-split stock would double to $400, which happened less than a month later."
http://www.observer.com/2011/06/bit-omoney-whos-behind-the-bitcoin-bubble/
"It's not a bubble, and this time is different!" -That's what people always think.
This interview of Bruce Wagner is absolutely fantastic (warning: it is long).
It's also very one sided IMHO, I couldn't help thinking 'ponzi scheme!' while watching this. Bruce is almost exclusively focused on the (expected) appreciating value instead of utility and although Stefan mentions they're also going to talk about the downsides later on that never happens (don't you just hate when people state they'll come back to something later and they invariably don't?). Bruce also seems quite distracted in places, maybe he was watching the appreciation not happening?
We really need more balanced evangelism, the Bitcoin economy is helped a lot more by slowly and steadily growing with awareness of its weaknesses than by exponential hysteria causing a bubble that will wreck the whole thing when it comes crashing down.
http://www.observer.com/2011/06/bit-omoney-whos-behind-the-bitcoin-bubble/
My business got a small plug. No link, but that's reasonable.
My business got a small plug. No link, but that's reasonable.
SomethingAwful really wants to think they prompted 'Black Friday':
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/attack-of-bitcoins.php?page=1
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/attack-of-bitcoins.php?page=1
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