Bitcoin: geld zonder bank
(Bitcoin: money without bank)
Karina Meerman
2012-10-10
http://www.42bis.nl/2012/10/bitcoin-geld-zonder-bank/(via machine translation)
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Bitcoins are digital cash, currency valid on the Internet. It is a decentralized electronic currency that is not managed by banks or governments or under their control. Bitcoins works without straw men or credit cards.
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Why should I?
Well, why not? Prophets of doom predict the end of the financial system as we know it today and exploring alternatives may not be a bad idea. Enough discussion online at least the value of gold versus bitcoin ( golden standard versus cyber currency ). Personally, I regret that there is much debate whether bitcoin the money of the future "or hype." Why only those two choices? Why not a brilliant development that may or may not be inspired to rethink payment? Because something relatively short time a lot of media attention - and thus a boom is - it does not useless. And if you have a label considering messing preventing, testifies that I think of looking beyond today.
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Via the dodgy machine translation - it looks like a relatively positive article.
*wince*
Learn?
Look than fifty episodes of The Bitcoin Show on YouTube. Here
Bitcoins works without straw men or credit cards
Well.. I'm relieved to know I don't need any straw men! Could someone familiar with Dutch explain the idiom 'strawmen' in this context? Does it just mean middlemen/intermediaries?
