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Title: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: Zomdifros on March 20, 2013, 04:50:07 PM
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/20/bitcoin-spain-currency-run

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If you think your savings are under threat -- from a banking collapse, government seizure or anything else -- the traditional thing to do is withdraw your cash and stick it under a mattress. But could Europeans scared of losing their cash be turning to Bitcoins instead?

Apparently, word has gotten out that Spaniards are flocking towards Bitcoin. Don't know if this is actually true, but they will be from now on.


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 20, 2013, 05:39:52 PM
But but but...didn't Wired report that Bitcoin was "Tired" not long ago?

How can this be???


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: justusranvier on March 20, 2013, 05:41:32 PM
But but but...didn't Wired report that Bitcoin was "Tired" not long ago?
Not at all.

They said it was "Expired".


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: iCEBREAKER on March 20, 2013, 05:55:21 PM
But but but...didn't Wired report that Bitcoin was "Tired" not long ago?
Not at all.

They said it was "Expired".

Now I'm even moar confused!   ???

If Bitcoin is "expired" then how can "Europeans scared of losing their cash be turning to Bitcoins instead?"

Both cannot be true. 

Doesn't Wired have fact checkers, or do they just let their writers go crazy, and publish any kind of hurr-durr derp-derp crap they feel like spewing?


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: Gabi on March 20, 2013, 05:59:33 PM
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If Bitcoin is "expired" then how can "Europeans scared of losing their cash be turning to Bitcoins instead?"

http://cuddlebuggery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/aliens-meme.jpeg


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: justusranvier on March 20, 2013, 05:59:52 PM
Doesn't Wired have fact checkers, or do they just let their writers go crazy, and publish any kind of hurr-durr derp-derp crap they feel like spewing?
The glory days of that magazine are firmly in the past. They probably hit their peak relevance in the late 1990s.


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: RodeoX on March 20, 2013, 06:01:34 PM
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If Bitcoin is "expired" then how can "Europeans scared of losing their cash be turning to Bitcoins instead?"

http://cuddlebuggery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/aliens-meme.jpeg

I love this guy. Especially his uber-stoned looking face.


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: herzmeister on March 20, 2013, 06:07:27 PM
If Bitcoin is "expired" then how can "Europeans scared of losing their cash be turning to Bitcoins instead?"

guess 'cause some things out there would be even moar expired.


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: justusranvier on March 20, 2013, 07:19:32 PM
2012-12-24: Bitcoin Expires (according to Wired Magazine)

https://i.imgur.com/x7XOXa3.png?1


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: herzmeister on March 20, 2013, 07:34:34 PM
2012-12-24: Bitcoin Expires (according to Wired Magazine)

https://i.imgur.com/x7XOXa3.png?1

classic!  8)


Title: Re: 2013-03-20 Wired.co.uk - Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial ..
Post by: mccorvic on March 20, 2013, 07:35:40 PM
2012-12-24: Bitcoin Expires (according to Wired Magazine)

pic

Maybe they meant bitcoin (as we know it) expired?

 ;D