2013-07-30 Yahoo Finance: Bitcoin Is Money… It’s Just Terrible At It

[Arvicco]

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/bitcoin-money-just-terrible-205752180.html

Yahoo Finance writers are sorta-kinda journalists... they're just terrible at it.

EDIT: Seems like the author is not a journalist at all, but just a pusher of a competing "regulated global peer-to-peer money transfer platform". No wonder his badly written hit piece is so glaringly biased: "Why is anyone even interested in a non-regulated P2P system when my superior regulated alternative is available?"

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[coinprize]

Yes.

What a coincidence to see it here.

I was updating my site data from yahoo.
I read it just now from Yahoo Finance.

And notice the article.

[lexxus]

And the author of that bull... is:

A technology and alternative payments lawyer, Robert MacGregor is the founder and CEO and founder of nTrust, a regulated global peer-to-peer money transfer platform.

[aigeezer]

And the author of that bull... is:

A technology and alternative payments lawyer, Robert MacGregor is the founder and CEO and founder of nTrust, a regulated global peer-to-peer money transfer platform.

Yes, I was just fishing out more detail when I saw your post.

Hilarious. The author owns nTrust, which would be hugely threatened by BTC. His webpage says modestly "Worldwide domination in 3 years".

Even funnier,  his company originated in 2010: "nTrust was founded on the vision of creating a better way to send money whenever and wherever people need it most. In 2010, a trip overseas inspired us to think beyond traditional banking to create an online service that is safe, easy, and most importantly, accessible."

http://dev.ntrust.com/tag/rob-macgregor

You'd think Yahoo Finance might be a bit more alert re conflict of interest issues, but....



 

[marcus_of_augustus]

You mean the Yahoo corporation that hosts branch offices and in-house servers for NSA data-trawling and cyber-snooping is biased against unregulated P2P ... how shocking.

Yahoo has sucked for a long time ... now they are just a grey-faced government lackey that sucks.

[d4n13]

Wow.. I never realized Yahoo.com was still registered.  I wonder if their email still works...  Might check AOL and CompUServe too. ;-)

[Gleb Gamow]

And the author of that bull... is:

A technology and alternative payments lawyer, Robert MacGregor is the founder and CEO and founder of nTrust, a regulated global peer-to-peer money transfer platform.

Yes, I was just fishing out more detail when I saw your post.

Hilarious. The author owns nTrust, which would be hugely threatened by BTC. His webpage says modestly "Worldwide domination in 3 years".

Even funnier,  his company originated in 2010: "nTrust was founded on the vision of creating a better way to send money whenever and wherever people need it most. In 2010, a trip overseas inspired us to think beyond traditional banking to create an online service that is safe, easy, and most importantly, accessible."

http://dev.ntrust.com/tag/rob-macgregor

You'd think Yahoo Finance might be a bit more alert re conflict of interest issues, but....

 

http://fusion.net/story/316272/craig-wright-bitcoin-creator-london-review-of-books/

I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.

[1Referee]

I use Bitcoin on a daily basis as currency (money), and I can only say it outperforms old fashion money without any problems. Yahoo on the other side, what kind of usefulness has it nowadays? They failed nearly in each aspect of the market. Within 3 years : Bye Bye Yahoo.

[BellaBitBit]

Haha.  Well Yahoo is Just Terrible At search results and website UX.  I see nothing in this article with a valid point.

[Kprawn]

I really did not expect this from Yahoo and are seriously considering switching to another search platform... I also thought they would spot such biased nonsense, but this is so blatant the blind next

door neighbour would have spotted that... so it must be deliberate.  We will see more misinformation and re-direction when Bitcoin becomes more mainstream.... When their competitors start

things like this --> http://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-bing-search-engine-bitcoin-currency-conversions/ and they do nothing, it should give you an idea where their loyalty are.. 

Not to mention --> http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-browser-brave-responds-cease-desist/