2013-11-27 NYTIMES: A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

[aigeezer]

The comments after the article are far better than the article itself.

Your comment persuaded me to take a look at them. I'm glad I did. There are thoughtful people out there who "get it" - posters claiming to be from Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, China, even "the internet". Great to see! Perhaps the present era of media FUD will end in this way, with facts from the amateurs relentlessly trumping spin from the professionals.

[monbux]

Wow.  Did he even provide any evidence to anything or just likes to rant random things out of nowhere.

Pure straight out of his ass.

I'm going to have a chat with this guy.  It'll be hilarious if/once bitcoins hit like 100K.

[salfter]

Wow.  Did he even provide any evidence to anything or just likes to rant random things out of nowhere.

It was the New York Slimes.  What did you expect from them...real journalism?

[jaydenH]

I love private money.

[beetcoin]

pro government NYTIMES.. that just cues me to never read the damn newspaper.

[mrb]

As I said on HackerNews:

This article is posted on DealBook (strictly speaking an entity independent from the NYTimes). DealBook is a financial-news website founded by Andrew Ross Sorkin [1]. This person has always had an anti-Bitcoin stance, probably because he clearly does not understand Bitcoin at all (see him interview the Winklevoss twins about Bitcoin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oGuKEazS5o ) and people tend to be dubious or scared by something they don't understand.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ross_Sorkin

[hieroglyph]

heh, I don't even have to read the article I can just read the post in this thread and I already know what a pile of fud it is.  I'm tried of reading pure non journalistic dribble.