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Title: [2016-01-21] Reports of bitcoin's death have been greatly exaggerated Post by: coinzat on January 21, 2016, 07:25:39 PM There's been a lot written about the death of bitcoin of late.
The digital currency has either failed, or is on the verge of collapse, according to op-eds and quotes in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Week, The Guardian, Fortune and more. All of these articles hinged on the decision of an influential developer in the bitcoin community to leave the space behind — a move he announced with a blog post. Despite the technical-sounding nature of those pronouncements, the reasons why former Google programmer Mike Hearn decided bitcoin had "failed" are a complicated story of competing business interests and philosophical considerations that some contend have been blown out of proportion. Read more : http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/21/bitcoin-isnt-dead-yet.html |