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Title: 2013-01-29 wealthdaily.com - Virtual Currency Hurting Central Banks? Post by: Akka on January 29, 2013, 06:27:40 PM Quote Virtual Currency Hurting Central Banks? Bitcoin Gains Popularity Bitcoin, the world’s biggest virtual currency, may be becoming a serious player. Its value has been increasing, leading to concerns that it could actually pull down the value of real-world central banks. In the past year, per Bloomberg, bitcoin value has gone from $5.88 to $16.37. A report by the European Central Bank last October indicated such virtual currencies can have a detrimental effect on central banks and their effect on the real-world market. Remarkably, bitcoin value shot up 55 percent after that report’s publication. Johns Hopkins University professor Steve Hanke thinks “the ECB obviously is concerned,” as he told Bloomberg, considering how easy it can be to use a virtual currency like the bitcoin. More intriguingly, bitcoin gained a lot of popularity in Iran last year, Bloomberg reports, due largely to the difficulty of acquiring dollars and the low value of the rial. It’s hard to say where this is going, but we’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the bitcoin. That's all, so nothing important. It's on their frontage and wealthdaily has 10,962 page-views per day, so that something. Source: http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/virtual-currency-hurting-central-banks/3942 Title: Re: 2013-01-29 wealthdaily.com - Virtual Currency Hurting Central Banks? Post by: novusordo on January 29, 2013, 06:38:25 PM We're seeing a lot of articles like this lately.
The best part about them is that banks will read these articles and want to stop Bitcoin, while regular people will read them and want to buy bitcoins. This will make people hate banks even more, accelerating Bitcoin's adoption. Title: Re: 2013-01-29 wealthdaily.com - Virtual Currency Hurting Central Banks? Post by: tjohej on January 29, 2013, 09:48:36 PM We're seeing a lot of articles like this lately. Hate banks you mean who do not accept BTC. Even if you don't mean this, this is how I interpret it.The best part about them is that banks will read these articles and want to stop Bitcoin, while regular people will read them and want to buy bitcoins. This will make people hate banks even more, accelerating Bitcoin's adoption. There are "Bitcoin banks" today. Heard of those online Bitcoin wallets? That's a bank. A bank stores value for you, and that's what an online wallet service is. You must mean large multinational economic institutions that don't handle BTC that people hate. Title: Re: 2013-01-29 wealthdaily.com - Virtual Currency Hurting Central Banks? Post by: kiba on January 29, 2013, 09:58:07 PM There is a tendency to be "us versus them" mentality on the part of bitcoiners.
Title: Re: 2013-01-29 wealthdaily.com - Virtual Currency Hurting Central Banks? Post by: conspirosphere.tk on January 29, 2013, 10:13:30 PM Somewhat related:
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