Nice find - that kind of pattern is important evidence for an author's (lack of) credibility.
In recent years WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos (Amazon) - I don't know what implications that has for Amazon's potential use of
BTC, but it is worth keeping in mind.
Sometimes the Great Game is just too complicated to follow from the sidelines - I have no idea who is doing what to whom, but both the articles are certainly full of misinformation and spin. It's a useful exercise to pick at the author's claims point by point, for validity consistency and so forth. The style is compelling - the content not so much. Casual readers will be swept along by the style, I imagine, but to what end? What's in it for WaPo, and especially for Bezos, if
BTC adoption is thwarted?
I used to love it when WaPo (Watergate) and Bezos bucked the establishment. Sigh.