On the cover page of The Economist

[defaultking]

Already read it!

[BitcoinFortune]

There comes a time when it all ends up with this: You have to take a decision on where you are at, and you can only have 2 options
1) You get on Bitcoin now and acknowledge his potential then reap the benefits later
2) You keep being a skeptic/hater and become a laughin stock later, just like the "the world doesn't need computers" guys.

I remember the head of IBM said the world only needs 10(?) computers.

We need bitcoin and other crypto currencies to succeed to enrich our lives and liberate us from perpetual fiat inflation.

[OROBTC]

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If Bitcoin continues its upward rampage, it is going to get on a lot more covers than The Economist.  Zero Hedge and even Bloomberg have done a reasonably good job of covering BTC the past few days.

I did not see anything, though, on the MSM sites like CNBC, CNN or MarketWatch.

But, if the price roars ahead (to $600 say?), it WILL get noticed and published.  "Easy Money" is easy to publicize, and Americans love reading about how to get easy money...



EDIT: Ah, nope I was wrong.  CNBC now has an article, discussed at this thread>

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1236938.0

[mycryptovault]

Do any retailers sell this here in the us?

[freedomno1]

Thanks for reminding me to go get a copy
I made a thread for it in Economics but it also picked up traction here in bitcoin discussion, i'm sure a decent amount of interest was generated by this magazine

Do any retailers sell this here in the us?

I believe so it should be in the local stores as it's a English based finance magazine.
Try Target

[countryfree]

Do any retailers sell this here in the us?

Yes, I'm sure I've seen it already. But hurry, it's a weekly published every Friday.

Back to the subject, I have no doubt this cover page was a cause for the actual surge. I guess we should all have bought some BTC on Friday morning. I certainly regret I didn't.

[cjmoles]

How much do you think the recent bitcoin pump can be attributed to this article?  It seems like there's is a correlation between the two events....but, we do have devcon coming up and the recent Silk Road BTC auction...so....what do you think?

[freedomno1]

How much do you think the recent bitcoin pump can be attributed to this article?  It seems like there's is a correlation between the two events....but, we do have devcon coming up and the recent Silk Road BTC auction...so....what do you think?

Perhaps a bit, a lot of interested people seemed to have bought out all the editions near my place and I checked more than a handful of bookstores mumble, that or it may be late shipping this weeks edition since the stock I saw was for Oct 23 to Oct 30 still.

[cysive]

Forgot to post this here when I wrote it. Some old fogies like me might remember the tune that goes with it -- "Cover of The Rolling Stone":

We buy all kinds of pills that give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've always missed
Is the thrill that'll getcha when you get your picture
On the cover of The Economist

(Economist...) Wanna see my picture on the cover
(Mist...) Usin Bitcoin to buy five copies for my mother...(Yes)
(Mist...) Wanna see my virtual' face
On the cover of the Economist...(That's a very very good idea)!

-C