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Title: 1013-12-07 Yahoo finance blog : The Economic Case for Bitcoin
Post by: bitfromit on December 07, 2013, 06:07:37 AM
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/the-economic-case-for-bitcoins-195318107.html

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, co-authored with Rob Shavell, co-founder of Abine.com


Rational writings. The last sentence quoted here :

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Bitcoins may well be one of the truly major financial innovations that brings the world together and forces long-needed fiscal and financial reform.  Let’s give it a chance.


Title: Re: 1013-12-07 Yahoo finance blog : The Economic Case for Bitcoin
Post by: Beans on December 07, 2013, 09:48:34 AM
It's extremely painful to read yahoo user comments.


Title: Re: 1013-12-07 Yahoo finance blog : The Economic Case for Bitcoin
Post by: chmod755 on December 07, 2013, 08:23:54 PM
Are you time travelling?


Title: Re: 1013-12-07 Yahoo finance blog : The Economic Case for Bitcoin
Post by: Spaceman_Spiff on December 07, 2013, 08:42:55 PM
very nice article


Title: Re: 1013-12-07 Yahoo finance blog : The Economic Case for Bitcoin
Post by: cr1776 on December 07, 2013, 09:21:27 PM
It's extremely painful to read yahoo user comments.

I just did and you are right.  It is amazing how poorly informed people are and yet still will make comments like that.  There was one there talking about how it had no "transparency."  It is mind boggling.


[Of course given the subject format in many of the posts in this section when there is a clear example at the top of the page someone might say the same thing about it....]