Topic: Bloomberg.com spreading BTC BS - page 2. (Read 3273 times)

they probably use cash more than btc.. just a thought

True! I didnt see any output from them in the media, do u have an example? It must have passed me by.

However, in the spirit of P2P and decentralization etc I think more community efforts could be made on this front. Its in everyones benefit (well, most of us) to get the word out and relying on one company / organisation is probably not our best hope. IMHO the problem is that BTC world is filled with people that understand it already and are generally tech savvy, and dont really appreciate that the avg person will/does not get whats going on and the potentials. So a bridge needs to be made, and we need some regular bridge builders for that (ie normal evil marketing and PR types). THis slow education word of mouth thing will only take us so far and I dont think we have time (I suspect many places will go the way of Ecuador before slow education will work).
Anyway, I think I'll start to lobby someone with some money / good BTC product to start a kickstarter and get the ball rolling. If PR is coming, then a public friendly app needs to go with it...

Sources say Bloomberg is popular among pedos.

I am quoting the article man. I am not typing that.

actually bloomberg ist very positive on bitcoin since months (matt miller , thx!)

How often? Show us the data please.

Oh I forgot, you don't have any data because it is almost impossible to collect data about this "industry" without doing something highly illegal.

Yeah, it was already some time ago! They do keep changing their logo constantly, I guess. Much like Google does to commemorate some special event or person!

I just went to USAtoday.com and now the blue symbol is a telephone, not a BTC

That's the crazy thing about top level people and governments too, they like to pass and enforce laws that they themselves break.

It is actually the task of the Bitcoin Foundation to lobby for Bitcoin and come up with clever ways of advertising it. They do get in the media, but aren't exactly successful in portraying Bitcoin from its brightest and positive sides, if you know what I mean 

this is why BTC needs some proper marketing and PR teams working on getting joe soap to hear the good stuff about BTC. They onyl hear this type of thing so far and this will make it easy for governing bodies to regulate the crap out of it (or any other way to keep it restrained). If there were larger amounts of public adoption they would find it harder to do that.

We should have a kickstarter to fund a commercial campaign for the TV and papers and radio or similar. Get these media machines under the thumb of BTC like their other sponsors. Then well see how many peodo references there are to BTC... and at the same time it encourages wider mass adoption:)

also, lets try to get this viral, pls spam everyone with it:
http://youtu.be/cW3fM95L7RU
(Pheeva wallet commercial)

Yeah, that really blew my mind when that happened! I mean it's a major newspaper. Maybe not the best out there, but hey who cares? It's about the exposure of Bitcoin! And you see how it transcends even into those mainstream newspapers. It's awesome!

Forbes and Time (?) magazine had important, mostly positive articles shortly before the huge May/June 2011 rally.
The occasional & repeated mainstream media positive 'hype' of Bitcoin is amazing and sometimes "a little strange".

For example take a good look at this USA TODAY logo:

Their stance on Bitcoin has actually changed in many ways already! It used to be pretty bad, but now they actually do report positive things about it! Let's see what happens when the next wave of adoption comes rolling in!

There was a talk on this by Andreas Antonopoulos just recently. Usually when a revolutionary technology comes along the majority of people fail to see it..
This happened with the telegram, the telephone, the internet and now with bitcoin.

This isn't a big deal whatsoever and this thread is obsolete to Bitcoin.

I do agree on this. The thing that bothers me is that we need to be on the defensive STILL.

I have no issue constantly defending something I beleive in, but it gets tiresome. I was more trying to draw some people there to help comment about how people want to blame bitcoin for everything bad. Some articles I read never get any support from people who really understand bitcoin and the media spreads their stupid bs. I usually comment on something with a few short sentences and a link to info on what bitcoin really is in those cases.

It just sucks because we don't have a 20 billion dollar news media giving us good PR. You know? So I guess we gotta do all we can, grass roots movement really. CoinDesk is helpful but sometimes a little off putting for my tastes.

Although usually I agree with you, I do not agree with you saying "I am turning it into a big deal about bitcoin". The Article is not just about Western Union, and it more points the finger at BTC if you look closely.

Quotes from the Article.

""Virtual Currencies

The task force has recommended that governments regulate virtual currencies and apply anti-money laundering rules to transactions using them. It called for limits on privacy and anonymity on services such as Tor. And it suggested police do more to use existing laws on currency transfers to investigate suspected child sexual abuse.

In April, Britain took steps to adhere to some of those guidelines. The Crown Prosecution Service allowed the Internet Watch Foundation to actively seek out and search online for child pornography, as opposed to simply acting on tips from the public as it had done in the past. The group is the only non-police organization worldwide with such powers, according to InHope, a network of 51 child abuse hot lines in 45 countries. ""

And Bitcoin is also referenced twice by name.

""While credit-card payments for child porn on the public Internet have plummeted, huge amounts of material have moved underground, and are often paid for using anonymous wire transfers and the bitcoin virtual currency.""

"The delegates discussed the flourishing trade on sites with names such as PedoEmpire, Lolita City, Jail Bait and The Love Zone. Together those sites have hundreds of thousands of members, who pay for access with bitcoins, prepaid cards, and anonymous wire-transfer services. "

Much of the negative focus is intentional:
Scared and "hopeless" people are a lot easier to control.